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RULES AND REGULATIONS 

OF THE 

State Board of Registration in Embalming, 


LIST OF REGISTERED EMBALMERS 



AND 


Rules for Transportation of the Dead. 




























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MAR 26 


To the Registered Embalmer. 


The Board of Registration in Embalming herewith presents you 
with a list giving the name and registered number of all embalmers 
who have complied with the law and are legally entitled to practice 
in this State. All persons practicing embalming other than those 
named in this official list, and having the official card issued by this 
Board, are doing so in violation of the law, and will be prosecuted upon 
complaint being made and proper information being furnished to the 
secretary. 

Renewal fees are due in advance, and should be paid to the secre¬ 
tary not later than December 15th of each year, thereby avoiding 
any mistakes or misunderstandings that are liable to occur. 

All changes of address, removals, and deaths of registered embalm¬ 
ers should be reported to this office promptly, so that the secretary 
may always have the correct address and a proper register of all 
embalmers qualified to practice embalming in this State. 

A form of transportation permit for transportation of human dead 
bodies in and from this State has been adopted by this Board and 
approved by the State Board of Health, which we trust will meet the 
requirements of the other States and be satisfactory to the embalm¬ 
ers of this State. These permits can be obtained from the city 
registrars or town clerks of the cities and towns of this State. 

Rules for the transportation and shipment of human dead bodies 
in and from this State have been adopted by this Board and approved, 
by the State Board of Health, which are published in this book. 

A strict observance of the laws of embalming and the rules for 
the transportation of the dead will not only contribute to the benefit 
of the embalmers of this State, but to the best interest of the pro- 



2 BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 

fession at large. We therefore ask of you a continuance of your 
assistance in the support of the law, that the profession may be 
elevated in public opinion to a higher standard intellectually and 
morally. 

Respectfully, 

ROBERT C. COTTRELL, Chairman. 
CHARLES E. BARBER, Secretary , 
JOHN J. McCANNA. 


27 Broad St., Providence, R. I. 


List of Registered Embalmers. 


152.f Allen, Anna M.Los Angeles, Cal. 

96.*t Armstrong, John FA.Providence. 

38.*t Armstrong, Myers R.Providence. 

103.* Arnold, A. Herbert.Providence. 

31. * Avery, George W.Hope Valley. 

30.*f Avery, Samuel R.Hope Valley. 

165.* Bacon, Oliver.Warren. 

184. | Ballou, Bertram A.Providence. 

77.*t Barber, Charles E.Providence. 

148.*t Bates, Orren W.Sterling, Conn. 

32. *f Bellows, Dexter W.Pawtucket. 

130.t Bennett, Daniel E.Anthony. 

132.* Berry, James B.Pawtucket. 

123.*f Berry, Thomas E.Pawtucket. 

187. f Boss, James H.Boston, Mass. 

50. * Boyce, Henry J.Providence. 

1 S3, f Boyce, William P.Providence. 

185. *t Bristol, Bernard L.East Providence. 

210. t Bryant, Eearle Vincent.Pawtucket. 

25.* Carder, Frederick D.Providence. 

63.*t Carpenter, Arthur W.Providence. 

62.* Carpenter, J. Will.Providence. 

28.*t Carroll, Eugene F.Providence. 

27.* Carroll, Robert F.Providence. 

10.* Chase, Clarence O.Providence. 

51. *f Cheetham, Charles X.Pawtucket. 


* Undertakers. 

t Passed a satisfactory examination. 
































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52.* Cheetham, George B..Central Falls. 

102.*f Clark, Samuel M.Centreville. 

145.*f Coffey, Patrick J.Providence. 

45.* Comstock, Melville H.Providence. 

33.*f Corrigan, John J.Harrisville. 

75.*f Cottrell, Robert C.Newport. 

7.*f Coutanche, John J.Providence. 

60. * Cranston, George C.Wickford. 

81. * Day Elmer H.Block Island. 

175.*t DePasquale Angelo..Providence. 

100. * Di Iorio, John.Providence. 

200. f Douty, Albert S.Providence. 

9.*f Drabble, Irving H.Providence. 

163.*f Duffy, Augustus P.Bristol. 

207. f Duffy, James Joseph.Valley Falls. 

61. *f Dunphy, James A.Newport. 

83. Edwards, James W.Providence. 

42.*f Enos, Joseph M.Providence. 

101. Farrell, Edward F.Providence. 

97.* Fenner, Herbert A.Providence. 

134.* Ferrara, Domenico.Providence. 

205.*| Ferrara, Teresa A.Providence. 

126. Finnerty, James.Arctic. 

72. Flynn, Daniel J.Central Falls. 

171.* Flynn, J. Joseph.Providence. 

37.* Flynn, Thomas F.Pawtucket. 

41. Freeborn, Richard H.Newport. 

117.* Fuller, James R..Auburn. 

181. Gaffney, Joseph W.Westerly. 

82. * Gattone, Thomas.Providence. 

140.* Gavitt, Charles H.Westerly. 

170.* Gilbert, Alexander.Woonsocket. 


*Undertakers. 

tPassed a satisfactory examination. 





































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147.* 

Gorman, Daniel. 


125. t 

Gorman, Harold D. 


139. t 

Gorman, James. 


203. t 

Gormley, Frank L. 


65. 

Gough, James F. 


69. 

Gorton, Frank R. 


172.* 

Goyer, Peter. 


84.* 

Grandpre, George De. 


190.*t 

Hagan, Arthur C. 

.Providence. 

22. *t 

Handy, Merrill B. 


79.* 

Harlow, John F. 


213.t 

Harlow, John F., Jr. 

.Providence. 

105.* 

Hennessey, John H. 

.Providence. 

95.*f 

Heroux, Lucien. 


141.* 

Herrick, Richard. 

.Woonsocket. 

197.*f 

Hicks, John B. 

.North Westport, Mass. 

1.* 

Hill, Charles G. 

.East Greenwich. 

14. 

Hill, Frank R. 

.East Greenwich. 

78.f 

Holdredge, Ernon M. 

.Providence. 

189.* t 

Holland, Bernard. 

.Providence. 

202. t 

Hudson, James H. 

.Providence. 

118.* 

Hughes, John S. 

.Providence. 

136.* 

Jones, Robert F. 

.Providence. 

151.t 

Judson, Harry P. 

.Pawtucket. 

116.*f 

Juhlin, Alfred. 

.Providence. 

6.* 

Keefe, John E. 

.Providence. 

137.*f 

Kelley, Mary F. 

.North Smithfield. 

192.*f 

Kennedy, Louis E. 

.Danielson. 

90.* 

Kilgore, Frank. 

.Providence. 

109.* 

King, Patrick. 

.Providence. 

111. 

King, Patrick, Jr. 

.Providence. 

110. 

King, Thomas J. 

.Providence. 


*Undertakers. 

fPassed a satisfactory examination. 




































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209.* 

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73. 
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Knowles, Ellmer F.... 
Knowles, Horace E.... 

Lalor, Frank J. 

Lancly, John J. 

Langley, Frederick E.. 

Langley, John S. 

Lariviere, J. Arthur.. . 

Larochelle, N. J. 

Lauzon, Joseph. 

Lee, Frederick J. 

Lee, Frederick P. 

Levesque, Louis E. .. . 
Lillibridge, H. Edward 

Lynch, Maurice. 

Manning, Daniel E.... 

Manning, John F. 

Mariana, Antonio. 

Marsh, Samuel W. 

McAloon, Augustine F. 
McAloon, Vincent J.. . 

McCabe, Thomas. 

McCanna, John J. 

McCanna, Raymond P 
McCanna, William L.. 
McCarthy, Dennis F... 
McCarthy, John F. J... 
McDermott, Patrick F. 

McGinn, John L. 

McGinn, Sylvester. 

Me Guinness, Edward J 

McKay, Robert. 

McMurrough, Frank... 


. Providence. 

. Providence. 

.Millville, Mass. 

. Providence. 

. Newport. 

. Newport. 

.Fall River, Mass. 

. Woonsocket. 

. Woonsocket. 

. Pawtucket. 

. Newport. 

. Manville. 

.Danielson, Conn. 

. Providence. 

. Pawtucket. 

. Providence. 

. Providence. 

. Newport. 

. Pawtucket. 

. Pawtucket. 

. Providence. 

. Woonsocket. 

. Woonsocket. 

. Woonsocket. 

. Providence. 

. Providence. > 

. Fall River, Mass. 
.North Attleboro, Mass. 
.North Attleboro, Mass. 
. Providence. 

. Bristol. 

. Providence. 


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*U ndertakers. 

tPassed a satisfactory examination. 



































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174. 

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195. *f 
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115.* 

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155.*f 
57.* 
46.* 


Mellor, William G. 

Monahan, Ellen L. 

Monahan, Thomas F. 

Monahan, Thomas F., Jr. 
Montgomery, Fred L.. . . 

Mulgrew, William' E. 

Mulligan, Henry P. 

Munro, Edward Burnside 

Murphy, Joseph T. 

Negus, C. A. 

Noyes, Asa, Jr. 

O’Neill, Daniel F. 

O’Neill, Patrick H. 

O’Neill, William H. 

Page, Charles H. 

Paradis, L. O. 

Paterson, Luther W. 

Phillips, Henry S. 

Platt, Chester H. 

Potter, Harry L. 

Quinn, Charles A. 

Quinn, Thomas. 

Quinn, Thomas J. 

Quinn, Timothy S. 

Bandall, Frank E. 

Read, Byron. 

Read, Herman B. 

Reid, Edwin L. 

Reilly, James D. 

Remington, Frank E.. . . 

Ring, Augustus P. 

Robert, Thomas. 


Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Blackstone, Mass. 

Providence. 

Woonsocket. 

Westerly. 

Block Island. 

Westerly. 

Pawtucket. 

Newport. 

Pawtucket. 

Providence. 

Fall River, Mass. 
Phenix. 

Pawtucket. 

Providence. 

North Westport, Mass. 
Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Woonsocket. 

Providence. 

Anthony. 

Anthony. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Pawtuxet. 

Providence. 

Arctic. 


* Undertakers. 

tPassed a satisfactory examination. 



































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191.f 
204. *t 
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Rodrigues, Manuel.... 

Roy, George A. 

Roy, Norbet. 

Ryan, Charles H. 

Ryan, Charles L. 

Saunders, Frank B.... 
Skeffington, James F.. 
Slocum, James Horace 

Smith, William H. 

Sperry, Henry N. 

Steere, Yarnum. 

Stone, Charles F. 

Sullivan, James E. 

Sullivan, Michael H.. . 
Sutton, John Thomas. 

Sweatman Roy C. 

Tanner, John F. 

Therien, Arsene. 

Therien, Wilfrid. 

Tierney, Charles H .... 

Tierney, Frank P. 

Tobin, James......... 

Tobin, Michael J. 

Todd, John P. 

Toye, Charles W. 

Trottier, Cleophas A ... 

Trottier, John B. 

Wachschlager, Hugo E 

Walsh, John H. 

Ward, Joseph E. 

Waring, James H. 

Watson, Frank E. 


.Fall River, Mass. 

. Manville. 

. Pawtucket. 

c 

. Providence.' ^ u 

. Valley Falls. 

.Central Falls. 
Providence. 

. Wakefield. 

. W arren. 

North Attleboro, Mass. 
. Pascoag. 

. Attleboro. 

Fall River, Mass 
Fall River, Mass. 
Providence. 

Providence. 

. Providence. 

. Woonsocket. 

. Woonsocket. 

. Pawtucket. 

. Pawtucket. 

. Bristol. "v 

.Bristol. 

. Providence. 

. Providence. 

. Providence. 

. Providence. 

. Providence. 

. Providence. 

. Pawtucket. 

.Fall River, Mass. 

. Providence. 


*Undertakers, 

tPassed a satisfactory examination. 



































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11.*f 

157. *t 
143.* t 

158. f 

166. *f 
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150. f 
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168. * 


Whipple, Andrew B... 
Whipple, Frank M ... . 
Whiting, Arthur E... 
Whiting, Benjamin, M 
Whiting, William L. . 
Wightman, John A. C. 

Wilbur, Frederick. 

Wilbur, George M. 

Williams, Fred E. 

Williams, George Z... 
Williams, James H... 
Winward, James E... 

Wood, Albert E. 

Wood, Albertus F.... 
York, Andrew W. 


Greenville. 

Pascoag. 

North Attleboro, Mass. 
Fall River, Mass. 
Providence. 
Woonsocket. 

Bristol.. 

Bristol. 

Upton, Mass. 

Upton, Mass. 

East Providence. 

Fall River, Mass. 

North Scituate. 
Danielson, Conn. 
Providence. 


* Under takers. 

tPassed a satisfactory examination. 


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STATE BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


Rules and Regulations. 

\ 

Rule 1 . All applications for registration must be made to the 
State Board of Registration in Embalming, upon the blank form 
issued by this Board, which must be filled out and signed by the ap¬ 
plicant, and bear the signature of a reputable person, residing in the 
the same city or town as the applicant, certifying that the applicant is 
of good moral character and has obtained a common school education. 

The applicant must make affidavit to his signature, and that the 
statements contained in the application are true and in the hand¬ 
writing of the persons whose names are subscribed thereto. 

Rule 2. Section 1. The applicant must have taken a regular 
course of instruction at a reputable school of embalming Avhose 
course of instruction is satisfactory to this Board; or he must have 
had not less than one year’s experience in active work with a practic- 
ing embalmer; or 

Section 2. He must hold a certificate of “a licensed embalmer” 
from the examining board of another State whose examinations are 
satisfactory to this Board; and must have had not less than tw r o years’ 
active work as a practicing embalmer. 

Rule 3. All applications must be accompanied by a fee of five 
dollars, as provided by Chapter 35, Section 6, of the General Laws of 
1909. 

Rule 4. No fee shall be returned when the applicant fails to 




BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


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pass, but he or she may appear before this Board for re-examination 
upon the payment of a fee of three dollars, as provided by the above 
section of the General Laws. 

Rule 5. Section 1. All applications for examination must be 
filed, together with the fee of five dollars, in the office of the secretary 
of the State Board of Registration in Embalming, at least four days 
before the date of examination, in order to insure the examination of 
the applicant. 

Section 2. Seventy-five per cent, of answers, in a scale of one 
hundred, shall be required to entitle the applicant to registration. 

v 

Rule 6. Examinations for registration shall be held by the State 
Board of Registration in Embalming, at Providence, on the second 
Thursday of January and July of each year; and additional meetings 
may be held at such other time and place as the Board may de¬ 
termine. 

Rule S. Section 1. Every registered embalmer shall secure a 
renewal certificate before the first of January of each succeeding 
year, the fee for which (three dollars) shall be paid not later than 
December 15th of the year designated upon the certificate which he 
holds. Upon receipt of said fee a renewal card bearing the name, 
number, and date of expiration of his registration will be issued. 

All registered embalmers must show card of renewal upon request 
of boards of health or persons authorized to issue permits. 

Section 2. Any person failing to comply with the preceding section 
shall appear before this Board for re-examination to entitle him oi¬ 
lier to registration as provided by Rule 1. 

Rule 9. No embalming fluid, or any substitute therefor, shall 
be injected into the body of any person supposed to have come to 
death by violence, until a permit in writing, signed by a medical 
examiner, has been obtained. 

Rule 10. Section 1. The State Board of Registration in Em¬ 
balming may refuse to issue or renew certificates provided for in this 


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act, to persons who have by false and fraudulent representation 
obtained or sought to obtain practice in their profession; or who fail 
to comply with Chapter 121 of the General Laws of the State, or who 
are guilty of any other unprofessional or dishonorable conduct, or of 
any violation of the rules of the State or local boards of health. 

Section 2. This Board may revoke such certificates for any of such 
or other like causes: Provided that no certificate shall be revoked 
until the holder has been given reasonable notice of the charge or 
charges against him, and an opportunity for a full hearing before this 
Board. 

Rule 11 . Boards of health, city or town clerks, or other persons 
authorized to issue permits, shall have a certified list of embalmers, 
compiled and furnished by the State Board of Registration in Em¬ 
balming. 

Rule 12. The rules and regulations of the State Board of Registra¬ 
tion in Embalming have been adopted under the provisions of Chapter 
35 of the General Laws of Rhode Island, and it is expected that no 
transportation company operating in Rhode Island will receive the 
body of any person deceased until it has been prepared by a registered 
embalmer holding a certificate issued by the State Board of Registra¬ 
tion in Embalming. 


RULES OF THE RHODE ISLAND STATE BOARD OF REGIS¬ 
TRATION IN EMBALMING FOR THE TRANSPOR¬ 
TATION OF THE DEAD. 


These Rules having been duly adopted, and approved by the State Board of Health, 

have the force of Law. 


Rule 1 . The transportation of bodies dead of small pox, Asiatic 
cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever or bubonic plague, is absolutely 
forbidden, except after cremation. 

Rule 2. The bodies of those who have died of diphtheria (mem¬ 
branous croup), scarlet fever (scarlatina, scarlet rash), glanders, 
anthrax or leprosy shall not be accepted for transportation unless 
prepared for shipment by being thoroughly disinfected by (a) arterial 
and cavity injection with an approved disinfectant fluid, ( b ) disin¬ 
fecting and stopping of all orifices with absorbent cotton, and (c) 
washing the body with the disinfectant, all of which must be done by 
a registered embalmer, holding a certificate as such. After being dis¬ 
infected as above, such body shall be enveloped in a layer of cotton 
not less than one inch thick, completely wrapped in a sheet and band¬ 
aged, and encased in an air-tight zinc, tin, copper, or lead-lined 
coffin, or iron casket, all joints and seams hermetically soldered, and 
all enclosed in a strong, tight, wooden box. Or the body, being pre¬ 
pared for shipment by disinfecting and wrapping as above, may be 
placed in a strong coffin or casket, and said coffin or casket encased in 
an air-tight zinc, copper, or tin case, all joints and seams hermetically 
soldered, and all enclosed in a strong outside wooden box. 

Rule 3. Bodies dead of typhoid fever, phthisis, puerperal fever, 
erysipelas, tuberculosis, and measles, or other dangerous communi- 




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cable diseases, other than those specified in Rules 1 and 2, may be 
received for transportation when prepared for shipment by filling 
cavities with an approved disinfectant, washing the exterior of the 
body with the same, stopping all orifices with absorbent cotton, and 
enveloping the entire body with a layer of cotton not less than one 
inch thick, and all wrapped in a sheet and bandaged, and encased in 
an air-tight coffin or casket: Provided, that this shall apply only to 
bodies which can reach their destination within forty-eight hours 
from time of death. In all other cases such bodies shall be prepared 
for transportation in conformity with Rule 2. But when the body 
has been prepared for shipment by being thoroughly disinfected and 
arterially and cavity embalmed by a registered embalmer, the air¬ 
tight sealing and bandaging with cotton may be dispensed with. 

Rule 4. Bodies dead of diseases that are not contagious, in¬ 
fectious, or communicable may be received for transportation when 
encased in a sound coffin or casket and box, or enclosed in a strong 
outside wooden box: Provided, they reach their destination within 
forty-eight hours from the time of death. If the body cannot reach 
its destination within forty-eight hours from time of death, it must be 
prepared for shipment by filling cavities with an approved disin¬ 
fectant, washing the exterior of the body with the same, stopping all 
orifices with absorbent cotton and enveloping the entire body with a 
layer of cotton not less than one inch thick, and all wrapped in a 
sheet and bandaged, and encased in an air-tight coffin or casket. But 
when the body has been prepared for shipment by being thoroughly 
disinfected and arterially and cavity embalmed by a registered em¬ 
balmer, the air-tight sealing and the bandaging with cotton may be 
dispensed with. 

Rule 5. In. cases of contagious, infectious, or communicable 
diseases, the body must not be accompanied by persons or articles 
which have been exposed to the infection of the disease, unless cer¬ 
tified by the health officers as having been properly disinfected; and 
before selling passage tickets, agents shall carefully examine the 


BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


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transit permit and note the name of the passenger in charge and of 
any others proposing to accompany the body, and see that all neces¬ 
sary precautions have been taken to prevent the spread of the disease. 
The transit permit shall specifically state who is authorized to ac¬ 
company the remains. 

Rule 6. Every dead body must be accompanied by a person in 
charge, who must be provided with a passage ticket and also present 
a full first-class ticket marked “Corpse,” for the transportation of the 
body, and a transit permit with undertaker’s certificate, name of 
deceased, date of death; age, place of death, cause of death, and if of a 
contagious, infectious, or communicable nature, the point to which the 
.body is to be shipped; and when death is caused by any of the 
diseases specified in Rules 1 and 2, the name of the person or persons 
authorized to accompany the body. The undertaker’s certificate 
and paster shall be detached from the transit permit and pasted on the 
coffin box. The transit permit shall be handed to the passenger in 
charge of the corpse. The first coupon shall be detached by the 
official in charge of the baggage department of the initial line. 

Rule 7. Every disinterred body, dead from any disease or cause, 
shall be treated as infectious, or dangerous to the public health, and 
shall not be accepted for transportation unless said removal has been 
approved by the Board of Health, and all such disinterred remains 
shall be enclosed in a hermetically sealed (soldered) zinc, tin, or 
copper-lined coffin or box. Bodies deposited in receiving vaults 
will be treated and considered the same as buried bodies. 

Rule 8. The bodies of all persons who die in Rhode Island that 
are to be shipped by public conveyance, even though the initial point 
of such shipment be a railway station outside the State, must be 
prepared and forwarded in accordance with the regulations in force 
in the State of Rhode Island. 


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ACT ESTABLISHING BOARD. 


Chapter 35 of the General Laws of 1909. 


AN ACT TO CREATE A STATE BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN 
EMBALMING, AND TO REGULATE THE BUSINESS OF EM¬ 
BALMING. 

[Passed May 19, 1908,1 

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: 

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the 
embalming of dead human bodies in this state unless he shall have 
first obtained a certificate of registration as provided in this act. 
Any person who shall have received, as hereinafter provided in this 
act, a certificate of his qualifications to practice as an embalmer, 
shall be deemed and known as a registered embalmer under the pro¬ 
visions of this act; and no person, unless he has received a certificate 
under the provisions of this act, shall advertise or in any manner use 
such name of registered embalmer, or any other words or letters, or 
any imitation thereof tending to indicate that the person so advertis¬ 
ing or using the same is such registered embalmer. 

Sec. 2. A board of examiners, to be known as the state board of 
registration in embalming, is hereby created to carry out the purposes 
and enforce the provisions of this act. The members of said board, 
when appointed, shall be citizens of this state, and shall have at 
least five years’ practical experience in the embalming of dead human 
bodies and been actively engaged therein on their own account in this 





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state. At the present session of the general assembly the governor, 
with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint one member 
of said board to hold office until the first day of February, A. D. 
1909; one member of said board of hold office until the first day of 
February, A. D. 1910; and one member of said board to hold office 
until the first day of February, A. D. 1911. At the January ses¬ 
sion of the general assembly, A. D. 1909, and at the January session 
of the general assembly in every year thereafter, the governor, with 
the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint one member of said 
board, to hold office until the first day of February in the third year 
after his appointment, to succeed the member of such board whose 
term will next expire: Provided , that any vacancy which may occur 
in said board when the general assembly is not in session shall be 
filled by the governor until the next session thereof, when he shall, 
with the advice and consent of the senate, appoint some person to 
fill such vacancy for the remainder of the term. Each member of 
said board shall hold office until his successor is appointed and 
qualified. Any member of said board may be removed by the gov¬ 
ernor, with the advice and consent of the senate, for such cause as he 
and the senate shall deem sufficient, and shall express in the order of 
removal. Each member of said board shall give a bond in the sum 
of one thousand dollars, with surety or sureties to be approved by the 
general treasurer, conditioned for the faithful performance of his 
duties, and shall take the oath provided by law for public officers. 

Sec. 3. Said state board of registration in embalming shall 
organize as soon as may be after their appointment and qualification 
by electing one of their members chairman and one of their members 
secretary, and one of their members treasurer, and such organization 
shall continue until the appointment of any new member of said 
board of registration, except in case of any vacancy in any office, in 
which case such vacancy may be filled forthwith: Provided , that the 
office of secretary and treasurer may be filled by the same member. 
The secretary of said board shall keep a record of all its proceedings, 
issue all notices and certificates, and attest all such papers and orders 


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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 

as said board shall direct; and the secretary shall perform such other 
duties as shall lie designated by said board. Said board shall hold 
two regular meetings in each year, one on the first Tuesday of May, 
one on the first Monday of November, and such additional meetings 
at such times and places as they may determine. 

Sec. 4. Said board shall have power to adopt rules and regula¬ 
tions for conducting examinations to be held under this act. Said 
examinations shall be held at least once a year in the city of Provi¬ 
dence, and elsewhere in the discretion of said board. Such examina¬ 
tions shall be held upon the theory and practice of embalming, and 
such other relevant subjects as said board may determine. Such 
board shall issue to each applicant passing a satisfactory examina¬ 
tion a certificate, signed by the chairman and secretary of said board, 
entitling such person to practice in this state as a registered embalmer 
for the annual period stated in such license, or until such certificate 
shall be revoked as hereinafter provided in this act. Said board shall 
fix the time when all said licenses shall expire. Said board shall keep 
a register in which shall be entered the names of all the persons to 
whom certificates are issued under this act, and said register shall be 
open at all times to public inspection at the office of the secretary of 
said board. 

Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the board, immediately upon its 
organization, to notify all persons engaged in the embalming of dead 
human bodies in this state of the provisions of this act; and such 
persons so notified who have been engaged in the embalming of dead 
human bodies as aforesaid prior to the passage of this act shall, upon 
their application and the payment of a fee of five dollars to said board, 
be registered as embalmers, and shall receive a certificate thereof to 
the time fixed by said board for the expiration of said licenses. 

Sec. 6. Said board shall charge for the examination and certifi¬ 
cate provided for in this act a fee of five dollars, payable by said appli¬ 
cant at the time of filing his application. In case of the failure on 
the part of any applicant to attend the examination at the date speci¬ 
fied by said board, on sufficient excuse said applicant may, at the dis- 


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cretion of said board, appear and be examined at any subsequent 
meeting of said board, without charge and in case of failure to pass a 
satisfactory examination any applicants may, in the discretion of 
said board, have a re-examination upon the payment of the further 
sum of three dollars. Every registered embalmer shall after his 
registration, on such date as said board may determine, pay to the 
secretary of said board an annual fee of three dollars for the renewal 
of his registration. 

Sec. 7. The actual expenses of said board shall be paid out of the 
funds received from applicants for examinations: Provided, that in no 
event shall such expenses be a charge against the state. After all 
necessary expenses of said board have been paid by the treasurer 
thereof out of the moneys received by it from said fees, including a 
salary of one hundred dollars a’year to each of the members of said 
board, if there be funds for that purpose, the balance of the moneys 
received by it from said fees under this act shall be paid to the general 
treasurer. No moneys shall be applied to the payment of the expenses 
of said board or of said salaries, except that received from said fees 
as aforesaid. 

Sec. 8. Said board shall present annually to the general assembly, 
in the month of January, a detailed statement of the receipts and dis¬ 
bursements of said board during the preceding year, with a statement 
of its acts and proceedings and such recommendations as said board 
may deem proper. 

Sec. 9. Said board shall have power to revoke any certificate of 
registration, granted by it under this act, for gross incompetency, for 
unprofessional conduct, or for other cause sufficient in the judgment of 
said board: Provided, that before any certificate shall be so revoked, 
the holder thereof shall have notice in writing of the charge or charges 
against him and shall have reasonable opportunity to be heard in his 
defence. Any person whose certificate has been so revoked may apply 
to have the same reissued, and the same shall be reissued to him upon 
a satisfactory showing that such disqualification has ceased. Said 
board shall have power by its chairman to summon any person to 


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appear as a witness and testify at any hearing ^y said board under the 
provisions of this act, and to examine and to administer oaths to such 
witnesses. Any person aggrieved by any decision or ruling of said 
board may within thirty days, exclusive of Sundays and holidays, 
after receiving notice of said decision, appeal therefrom to the superior 
court sitting at Providence, by filing therein his reasons of appeal, and 
said superior court shall, as soon as may be after such notice to said 
board as shall be directed by the court,hear and determine said appeal, 
following the course of equity, and subject to all the rights of parties 
in such causes. 

Sec. 10. Nothing in this act shall prohibit any person from 
serving as an apprentice under the personal supervision of a registered 
embalmer: Provided, such apprentice shall first file with the secretary 
of said board a statement in writing,' showing the name and place of 
business of his employer, and the date of the beginning of such em¬ 
ployment, and the full name, age, and residence of such apprentice. 
No such apprentice shall be authorized to advertise or hold himself 
out to the public as a registered embalmer. Any person duly qualified 
and complying with the provisions of this act may be licensed as a 
registered embalmer, although not in business on his own account. 

Sec. 11. Whoever, not being registered as aforesaid, or whose 
license shall have expired or have been revoked* as aforesaid, shall by 
himself, or agent or servant, unless such agent or servant is so regis¬ 
tered, engage in the business of the embalming of dead human bodies, 
shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by 
imprisonment for a term not exceeding two months, or by both, in 
the discretion of the court. 

Sec. 12. This act shall take effect upon its passage for the appoint¬ 
ment of commissioners, the examinations of applicants, and the con¬ 
duct of the business of said board. For all other purposes this act 
shall take effect upon June 1, A. D. 1908. 


8>taU nf iSlinhr ?' lanii anil frnmiientp ipiantationa. 



RULES AND REGULATIONS 

OF THE 

State Board of Registration in Embalming, 

LIST OF REGISTERED EMBALMERS 

AND 

Rules for Transportation of the Dead. 


1911 . 
























To the Registered Embalmer. 


The Board of Registration in Embalming herewith presents 
you with a list giving the name and registered number of all em- 
balmers who have complied with the law and are legally entitled 
to practice in this State. zYll persons practicing embalming other 
than those named in this official list, and having the official card 
issued by this Board, are doing so in violation of the law, and 
will be prosecuted upon complaint being made and proper infor¬ 
mation being furnished to this Board. 

Renewal fees are due in advance, and should be paid to the 
secretary not later than December 15th of each year, thereby 
avoiding any mistakes or misunderstandings that are liable to 
occur. 

All changes of address, removals, and deaths of registered em- 
balmers should be reported to this office promptly, so that the sec¬ 
retary may always have the correct address and a proper register 
of all embalmers qualified to practice embalming in this State. 

The acts of the General Assembly of Rhode Island, as passed 
at its January sessions of 1908 and 1910, as well as the rules of 
the State Board of Registration in Embalming, are also published 
in this pamphlet so that all Undertakers and Embalmers may be 
familiar with the duties connected with their profession. 

Respectfully, 

JOHN J. McCANNA, Chairman. 

ROBERT C. COTTRELL, 

CHARLES E. BARBER, Secretary. 



Official List of Registered Embalmers of the State of 
Rhode Island, February 1, 1911. 


152.* 

96.* 

38.* 

103. 

31. 

30.* 

165. 

219.* 

184. * 
77 .* 

148.* 

QO * 

M « 

130.* 

132. 

123.* 

187.* 

50. 

183.* 

185. * 

210 .* 

99K * 

o • 

25. 

63.* 

28.* 


Allen, Anna M. 

Armstrong, John F. ... 
Armstrong, Myers R. . 
Arnold, A. Herbert 

Avery, George W. 

Avery, Samuel R. 

Bacon, Oliver. 

Bailey, Robert P. 

Ballou, Bertram A..., 
Barber, Charles E. ... 

Bates, Orren W. 

Bellows, Dexter W. .. 
Bennett, Daniel E. ... 

Berry, James B. 

Berry, Thomas E. 

Boss, James H. 

Bovce, Henry J. 

Bovce, William P. ... 
Bristol, Bernard L. .. 
Bryant, Earle Vincent 
Buffington, Hiram B. 
Carder, Frederick D. . 
Carpenter, Arthur W. 
Carroll, Eugene F. ... 


Los Angeles, Cal. 
Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Hope Valley. 

Hope Valley. 

Warren. 

East Providence, R. E 
Providence. 

Providence. 

Sterling, Conn. 
Pawtucket. 

Anthony. 

Pawtucket. 

Pawtucket. 

Boston, Mass. 
Providence. 

Providence. 

East Providence. 
Central Falls. 
Taunton, Mass. 

, Boston, Mass. 
Providence. 
Providence. 


* Passed a satisfactory examination. 




























BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


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27. Carroll, Robert F..Providence. 

10. Cliase, C1 arence O.Providenee. 

51. * C beet h am, Charles X.Paw tucket. 

52. Ckeetham, George B.Central Falls. 

102. w Clark, Samuel M.Centreville. 

227.* Clark, Walter L.Centredale. 

145/' Coffey, Patrick J.Providence. 

229.* Comstock, Lewis H....Providence. 

45. Comstock, Melville H.Providence. 

33.~ Corrigan, John J .Harrisville. 

75.* Cottrell, Robert C.Newport. 

7.* Coutanche, John J.Providence. 

GO. Cranston, George C..Wick ford. 

81. Day, Elmer LI.Block Island. 

175. DePasquale, Angelo .Providence. 

100. Di Iorio, John .Providence. 

200.* Douty, Albert S..Providence. 

9.* Drabble, Irving H.Providence. 

163.* Duffy, Augustus P.Bristol. 

207.* Duffy, James Joseph.Valley Falls. 

61.* Dunphy, James A.Newport. 

83. Edwards, James W.Providence. 

42.* Enos, Joseph M.Providence. 

101. Farrell, Edward F.Providence. 

4> 

97. Fenner, Herbert A.Centredale. 

233.* Farrington, Harry B.Franklin, Mass. 

134. Ferrara, Domenico .Providence. 

205.* Ferrara. Teresa. A.Providence. 

126. Finnertv, James.Arctic. 

72. Flynn, Daniel J.Central Falls. 

e/ 7 

171. Flynn, J. Joseph.Providence. 


* Passed a satisfactory examination. 


































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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


37. 

41. 

117. 


181. 

82. 

140. 

170. 

147. 

125.* 

139.* 

203.* 

65. 


69.* 
172. 
84. 
190.* 
.->2 * 


79. 

213.* 

231.* 

105. 

95.* 

141. 

197.* 

1 . 

14. 

78.* 

189.* 

220 .* 

202 .* 

136. 


Flvmi,* Thomas F. .. 
Freeborn, Richard H 
Fuller, James R.... 
Gaffney, Joseph W. . 
Gattone, Thomas . .. 
Gavitt, Charles H. .. 
Gilbert, Alexander . 
Gorman, Daniel .... 
Gorman, Harold D. . 
Gorman, James .... 
Gormlev, Frank L. . . 
Gough, James F. ... 
Gorton, Frank R. . .. 

Goyer, Peter . 

Grandpre, George De 
Hagan, Arthur C. . . 
Handy, Merrill B.. . 

Harlow, John F. 

Harlow, John F., Jr. 
Harlow, Joseph F. .. 
Hennessey, John H. . 
Heroux, Lucien .... 
Herrick, Richard .. . 

Hicks, John B. 

Hill, Charles G. 

Hill, Frank R. 

Hoi dredge, Enron M 
Holland, Bernard . . 
Horton, Frank C. ... 

Hudson, James H . . . 

* * 

Jones, Robert F. 


. Pawtucket. 

. Newport. 

. Auburn. 

. Westerly. 

. Providence. 

. Westerly. 

. Woonsocket. 

. Providence. 

. Providence. 

. Providence. 

. Providence. 

. Arctic. 

. Anthony. 

*✓ 

. Woonsocket. 

. Hhrrisville. 

. Providence. 

. Providence. 

. Providence. 

. Providence. 

; Providence. 

% 

. Providence. 

. Central Falls. 
..Woonsocket. 

.North Westport, Mass. 
. East Greenwich. 

. East Greenwich. 

. Providence. 

. Providence. 

. East Providence. 

. Providence. 

. Providence. 


* Passed a satisfactory examination. 



































BOARD OP REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


5 


151.* Judson, Harry P.Pawtucket. 

110. * Julilin, Alfred .Providence. 

0. Keefe, John B.Providence. 

1J7.* Kelley, Mary F.North Smithfleld. 

1!)2.* Kennedy, Louis E.Danielson. 

1)0. Kilgore, Frank .Providence. 

101). King, Patrick .Providence. 

111. King, Patrick H.Providence. 

110. King, Thomas J.Providence. 

138. Knowles, Ellmer F.Providence. 

2. . Knowles, Horace E.Providence. 

230.* Lalime, Napoleon .Manville. 

209. Lai or, Frank J..Millville, Mass. 

51). Landy, John J.Providence. 

73. Langley, Frederick E.Newport. 

214.* Lariviere, J. Arthur.Fall River, Mass. 

180. Larochelle, N. J.Woonsocket. 

222.* La Rochelle, Wilfrid W.Woonsocket.' 

228. * Mac ken z i e, Ira M..A u burn. 

211.* Lauzon, Joseph .Woonsocket. 

99. Lee, Frederick J.Pawtucket. 

80. Lee, Frederick P.Newport. 

74. Levesque, Louis E.Manville. 

153.* Lillibridge, IP. Edward.Danielson, Conn. 

94.* Lynch, Maurice .Providence. 

29.* Manning, Daniel E.Pawtucket. 

112. Manning, John F.Providence. 

177. Mariana, Antonio' .Providence. 

40. Marsh, Samuel W.Newport. 

13. MicAloon, Augustine I"*.Pawtucket. 

12.* McAloon, Vincent J.Pawtucket. 


* Passed a satisfactory examination. 


































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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


54. 
76.* 

128.* 

221 .* 

70. 

71. 
164. 
193.* 
160. 
201 .* 

55. * 
218.* 

17. 
48.* 

174. 

3. 

206.* 
21 ° * 
223.* 
195.* 
182.* 
133.* 

18. 
217.* 


McCabe, Thomas . 

McOanna, John J. 

McCanna, Raymond P... 
McCanna, William L. ... 

McCarthy, Dennis F. 

McCarthy, John F. J. 

McDermott, Patrick F. .. 

McGinn, John L. 

McGinn, Sylvester. 

•McGuinness, Edward J. . 

McKay, Robert. 

McKenna, Peter F....... 

McMurrough, Frank .... 

Mellon, William G. 

Monahan, Ellen L. 

Monahan, Thomas F. ... 
Monahan, Thomas F., Jr. 

Montgomery, Fred L. 

Moore, Edward IT. 

Mnlgrew, William E. 

Mulligan, Henry P. 

Munro, Edward Burnside. 

Murphy, Joseph T. 

Nardolillo, Benedetto . . . 


Providence. 

Woonsocket. 

Woonsocket. 

Woonsocket. 

Providence. 

.Providence. 

Fall River, Mass. 
North Attleboro, Mass. 
North Attleboro, Mass. 
Providence. 

Bristol. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

.Providence. 

, Wickford. 

B'lackstone, Mass. 

Providence. 

Woonsocket. 

Westerly. 

•j 

, Providence. 


115. Negus, C. A.Block Island. 

47. Noyes, Asa, Jr..Westerly. 

159. O’Neill, Daniel F.Pawtucket. 

49. O’Neill, Patrick II.Newport. 

91. 0’Neill, William H.Pawtucket. 

224.* Osborne, Norman J.Hartford, Conn. 

106. Page, Char 1 es H.Providence. 


* Passed a satisfactory examination. 


































BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


7 


196/ 


20 . 

8 .* 

64.* 

198.* 

87. 


86 . 


88 . 

34 . 

19.* 

67. 

€ 8 .* 


26. 


* 


i). 

1 155.* 


57. 


46. 

191 .* 

204.* 

66 .* 

15.* 

98. 

215.* 

24.* 

226.* 

58. 


85.* 

113. 

156.* 

216.* 


Paradis, L. O. 

Paterson, Luther W. . 
Phillips, Henry S. . .. 

Platt, Chester H. 

Potter, Harry L. ...... 

Prata, Raffaele. 

Quinn, Charles A.... 

Quinn, Thomas. 

Quinn, Thomas J. ... 
Quinn, Timothy S. . .. 
Randall, Frank E. ... 

Read, Byron . 

Read, Herman B. 

Reid, Edwin L. 

Reilly, James D. 

Remington, Frank E. 
Ring, Augustus P. ... 
Robert, Thomas 
Rodrigues, Manuel . .. 

Roy, George A. 

Rot, Norbet. 

Rvan, Charles II. 

Ryan, Charles L. 

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Sanderson, Harry F.. 
Saunders, Frank B. .. 
Silva, Marianne J. ... 
Skefiington, James F. 
Slocum, James Horace 
Smith, William H. .. 

Sperry, Henry N. 

Stapleton, John F. . .. 


Fall River, Mass. 
Plienix. 

Pawtucket. 

Providence. 

North Westport, Mass. 
Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Woonsocket. 

Providence. 

Anthony. 

Anthony. 

ft/ 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Pawtuxet. 

Providence. 

Arctic. 

Fall River, Mass. 
Manville. 

Pawtucket. 

Providence. 

Pawtucket. 

Providence. 

Central Falls. 

Fall River, Mass. 
Providence. 

Wakefield. 

Warren. 

North Attleboro, Mass. 
Providence. 


* Passed a satisfactory examination. 


































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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


92. * 
194.* 
162. 
161. 

93. 
186.* 
104. 

107. 

108. 


Steere, Yarnum .... 
Stone, Charles F.... 
Sullivan, James F.. 
Sullivan, Michael H. 
Sutton, John Thomas 
Sweatman, Roy C... 

Tanner, John F. 

Tkerien, Arsene .... 
Therien, Wilfrid . .. 


Pascoag. 

Attleboro. 

Fall River, Mass. 

Fall River, Mass. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Woonsocket. 

Woonsocket. 


23.* 

124. 

121 . 


120 . 

208.* 

199.* 

44.* 

43. 

39.* 

21 . 

56.* 

142. 
129. 
178. 

11 .* 

157.* 

143. * 


158.* 


Tierney, Charles II.... 

Tiernev, Frank P. 

Tobin, James . 

Tobin, Michael J. 

Todd, John P. 

Tove, Charles W. 

Trottier, Cleophas A. . 
T'rottier, John B..... . 
Wachschlager, Hugo E 

Walsh, John II. 

Ward, Joseph E. 

Waring, James H. 

Watson, Frank E. 

Whipple, Andrew B... 
Whipple, Frank M. . .. 
Whiting, Arthur E. . .. 
Whiting, Benjamin M. 
Whiting, William L. . . 


Pawtucket. 

Pawtucket. 

Bristol. 

Bristol. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Pawtucket. 

Fall River, Mass. 
Providence. 

Greenville. 

Pascoag. 

North Attleboro, Mass. 
Fall River, Mass. 
Providence. 


36. Wilbur, Frederick .Bristol. 

35. Wilbur, George M.Warren. 

150.* Williams, Fred E.Upton, Mass. 

149.* Williams, George Z.Upton, Mass. 


* Passed a satisfactory examination. 



































BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


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122.* Williams, James H.East Providence. 

167.* Winward, James E.Fall River, Mass. 

176. Wood, A1 bert E.North Seituate. 

154." Wood, Albertus F.Danielson, Conn. 

1G8. York, Andrew W.Providence. 


List of persons holding Undertakers Licenses in ac¬ 
cordance with Chapter 575, Section 8 of the Public 
Laws, Passed at the January session A. D. 1910. 


1 James Warren, Jr., Superintendent, North Burial Ground, 

Providence. 

2 John T. Brown, Superintendent, Dexter Asylum, Providence. 

3 James T. Harrington, Superintendent, Catholic Cemeteries, 

Providence. 

4 Henry P. Yorston, Superintendent, East Greenwich Gem., East 

Greenwich. 

5 Daniel P. Dyer, Superintendent, Pocasset Cemetery, Cranston. 
G Alonzo J. Gardiner, Superintendent, Elm Grove Cemetery, Al- 

lenton. 

7 E. Howard Dickey, Superintendent, Union Cemetery, North 
Smithfield. 


* Passed a satisfactory examination. 









/ 


^tatr nf SUjuhr SJalanh anil JfrxiuUtettr? JHantations. 


STATE BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


Rules and Regulations. 

Rule 1. All applications for registration must be made to the 
State Board of Registration in Embalming, upon the blank form 
issued by this Board, which must be filled out and signed by the 
applicant, and bear the signature of a. reputable person, residing 
in the same city or town as the applicant, certifying that the ap¬ 
plicant is twenty-one years of age, of good moral character, and 
has obtained a common school education. 

The applicant must make affidavit to his signature, and that 
the statements contained in the application are true and in the 
handwriting of the persons whose names are subscribed thereto. 

Rule 2. Section 1. The applicant must have taken a regular 
course of instruction at a reputable school of embalming whose 
course of instruction is 'Satisfactory to this Board; and he must 
have had not less than six months’ experience in active work with 
a practicing embalmer; or 

Section 2. He must hold a certificate of “a licensed embalmer” 
from the examining board of another State whose examinations 
are satisfactory to this Board; and must have had not less than 
two years’ active work as a practicing embalmer. 

Rule 3. All applications must be accompanied by a fee of five 
dollars, as provided by Chapter 35, Section 6, of the General Laws 
of 1909. 




BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


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Rule 4. No fee shall be returned when the applicant fails to 
pass, but he or she may appear before this Board for re-examina¬ 
tion upon the payment of a fee of three dollars, as provided by the 
above section of the General Laws. 

Rule 5. Section 1. Ajll applications for examination must be 
filed, together with the fee of five dollars, in the office of the secre¬ 
tary of the State Board of Registration in Embalming, at least 
four days before the date of examination, in order to insure the 
examination of the applicant. 

Section 2. Seventy-five per cent, of answers, in a scale of one 
hundred, shall be required to entitle the applicant to registration. 

Rule G. Examinations for registration shall be held by the 
State Board of Registration in Embalming, at Providence, on the 
second Thursday of January and July of each year; and addi- 
tional meetings may be held at such other time and place as the 
Board may determine. 

Rule 7. Section 1. Every registered embalmer shall secure a 
renewal certificate before the first of January of each succeeding 
year, the fee for which (three dollars) shall be paid not later than 
December 15th of the year designated upon the certificate which 
he holds. Upon receipt of said fee a renewal card bearing the 
name, number, and date of expiration of his registration will be 
issued. 

All registered embalmers must show card of renewal upon re¬ 
quest of boards of health or persons authorized to issue permits. 

Section 2. Any person failing to comply with the preceding 
section shall appear before this Board for re-examination to en¬ 
title him or her to registration as provided by Rule 1. 

Rule 8 . No embalming fluid, or any substitute therefor, shall 
be injected into the body of any person supposed to have come to 
death by violence, until a permit in writing, signed by a medical 
examiner, has been obtained. 


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Rule 9. flection 1. The State Board of Registration in Em¬ 
balming may refuse to issue or renew certificates provided for in 
this act, to persons who have by false and fraudulent representa¬ 
tion obtained or sought to obtain practice in their profession; or 
who fail to 1 comply with Chapter 121 of the General Laws of the 
State, as amended by Chapter 575 of the Public Laws, as passed 
at the January session, A. D. 1910, or of Chapter 35 of the Gen¬ 
eral Laws of 1909, or who are guilty of any other unprofessional 
or dishonorable conduct, or of any violation of the rules of the 
State or local boards of health. 

flection 2. This Board may revoke such certificates for anv of 
such or other like causes: Provided that no certificate shall be re¬ 
voked until the holder has been given reasonable notice of the 
charge or charges against him, and an opportunity for a full hear¬ 
ing before this Board. 

Rule 10. Boards of health, city or town clerks, or other per¬ 
sons authorized to issue permits, shall have a certified list of em- 
balmers, compiled and furnished by the State Board of Registra¬ 
tion in Embalming. 

Rule 11. The rules and regulations of the State Board of Reg¬ 
istration in Embalming have been adopted under the provisions 
of Chapter 35 of the General Laws of Rhode Island, and it is ex¬ 
pected that no transportation company operating in Rhode Island 
will receive the body of any person deceased until it has been pre¬ 
pared by a registered embalmer holding a certificate issued by the 
State Board of Registration in Embalming. 


Rules of the Rhode Island State Board of Registration 
in Embalming for the Transportation of the Dead. 


These Rules having been duly adopted, and approved by the State Board of 

Health, have the force of Law. 


Rule 1. The transporatation of bodies dead of smallpox, Asi¬ 
atic cholera yellow fever, typhus fever or bubonic plague, is abso¬ 
lutely forbidden, except after cremation. 

Rule 2. The bodies of those who have died of diphtheria (mem¬ 
branous croup), scarlet fever (scarlatina, scarlet rash), glanders, 
anthrax or leprosy shall not be accepted for transportation unless 
prepared for shipment by being thoroughly disinfected by (a) ar¬ 
terial and cavity injection with an approved disinfectant fluid, (b) 
disinfecting and stopping of all orifices with absorbent cotton, and 
(c) washing the body with the disinfectant, all of which must be 
done by a registered embalmer, holding a certificate as such. Af¬ 
ter being disinfected as above, such body shall be enveloped in a 
layer of cotton not less than one inch thick, completely wrapped 
in a sheet and bandaged, and encased in an air-tight zinc, tin, cop¬ 
per, or lead-lined coffin, or iron casket, all joints and seams her¬ 
metically soldered, and all enclosed in a strong, tight, wooden box. 
Or the bod}*, being prepared for shipment by disinfecting and 
wrapping as above, may be placed in a strong coffin or casket, and 
said coffin or casket encased in an air-tight zinc, copper, or tin 
case, all joints and seams hermetically soldered, and all enclosed 
in a strong outside wooden box. 

Rule 3. Bodies dead of typhoid fever, phthisis, puerperal fever, 
erysipelas, tuberculosis, and measles, or other dangerous communi- 




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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


cable diseases other than those specified in Rules 1 and 2, may be 
received for transportation when prepared for shipment by filling 
cavities with an approved disinfectant, washing the exterior of the 
body with the same, stopping all orifices with absorbent cotton, 
and enveloping the entire body with a layer of cotton not less than 
one inch thick, and all wrapped in a sheet and bandaged, and en¬ 
cased in an air-tight coffin or casket: Provided, that this shall 
apply only to bodies which can reach their destination within 
forty-eight hours from time of death. In all other cases such 
bodies shall be prepared for transportation in conformity with 
Rule 2. But when the body has been prepared for shipment by 
being thoroughly disinfected and arterially and cavity embalmed 
by a registered embalmer, the air-tight sealing and bandaging with 
cotton may be dispensed with. 

Rule 4. Bodies dead of diseases that are not contagious, in¬ 
fectious, or communicable may be received for transportation 
when encased in a sound coffin or casket and box, or enclosed in a 
strong outside wooden box: Provided, they reach their destina¬ 
tion within forty-eight hours from the time of death. If the body 
cannot reach its destination within forty-eight hours from time of 
death, it must be prepared for shipment by filling cavities with an 
approved disinfectant, washing the exterior of the body with the 
same, stopping all orifices with absorbent cotton, and enveloping 
the entire body with a layer of cotton not less than one inch thick, 
and all wrapped in a sheet and bandaged, and encased in an air¬ 
tight coffin or casket. But when the body has been prepared for 
shipment by being thoroughly disinfected and arterially and cav¬ 
ity embalmed by a registered embalmer, the air-tight sealing and 
the bandaging with cotton may be dispensed with. 

Rule 5. In cases of contagious, infectious, or communicable 
diseases, the body must not be accompanied by persons or articles 
which have been exposed to the infection of the disease, unless cer¬ 
tified by the health officers as having been properly disinfected; 


BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


15 


and before selling passage tickets, agents shall carefully examine 
the transit permit and note the name of the passenger in charge and 
of any others proposing to accompany the body, and see that all nec¬ 
essary precautions have been taken to prevent the spread of the 
disease. The transit permit shall specifically state who is author¬ 
ized to accompany the remains. 

Rule G. Every dead body must be accompanied by a person in 
charge, who must be provided with a passage ticket and also pre¬ 
sent a full first-class ticket marked “Corpse,” for the transporta¬ 
tion of the bod}", and a transit permit with undertaker’s certifi¬ 
cate, name of deceased, date of death; age, place of death, cause of 
death, and if of a contagious, infectious, or communicable nature, 
the point to which the body is to be shipped; and when death is 
caused by any of the diseases specified in Rules 1 and 2, the name 
of the person or persons authorized to accompany the body. The 
undertaker’s certificate and paster shall be detached from the 
transit permit and pasted on the coffin box. The transit permit 
shall be handed to the passenger in charge of the corpse. The 
first coupon shall be detached by the official in charge of the bag¬ 
gage department of the initial line. 

Rule 7. Every disinterred body, dead from any disease or 
cause, shall be treated as infectious, or dangerous to the public 
health, and shall not be accepted for transportation unless said re¬ 
moval has been approved by the Board of Health, and all such dis¬ 
interred remains shall be enclosed in a hermetically sealed (sol¬ 
dered) zinc, tin, or copper-lined coffin or box. Bodies deposited 
in receiving vaults will be treated and considered the same as 
buried bodies. 

Rule 8. The bodies of all persons who die in Rhode Island 
that are to be shipped by public conveyance even though the initial 
point of such shipment be a railway station outside the State, 
must be prepared and forwarded in accordance with the regula¬ 
tions in force in the State of Rhode Island. 


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ACT ESTABLISHING BOARD. 


Chapter 35 of the General Laws of 1909. 


AN ACT TO CREATE A STATE BOARD OF REGISTRATION 
IN EMBALMING, AND TO REGULATE THE BUSINESS 
OF EMBALMING. 


[Passed May 19, 1908.] 

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: 

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the 
embalming of dead human bodies in this state unless he shall have 
first obtained a certificate of registration as provided in this act. 
Any person who shall have received, as hereinafter provided in 
this act, a certificate of his qualifications to practice as an em- 
baliner, shall be deemed and known as a registered embalmer un¬ 
der the provisions of this act; and no person, unless he has re¬ 
ceived a certificate under the provisions of this act, shall advertise 
or in any manner use such name of registered embalmer, or any 
other words or letters, or any imitation thereof tending to indi¬ 
cate that the person so advertising or using the same is such regis¬ 
tered embalmer. 

Sec. 2. A board of examiners, to be known as the state board of 
registration in embalming, is hereby created to carry out the pur¬ 
poses and enforce the provisions of this act. The members of said 
board, when appointed, shall be citizens of this state, and shall 





BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


17 


have at least live years' practical experience in the embalming of 
dead human bodies and been actively engaged therein on their 
own account in this state. At the present session of the general 
assembly the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, 
shall appoint one member of said board to hold office until the 
first day of February, A. D. 1909; one member of said board to 
hold office until the first day of February, A. D. 1910; and one 
member of said hoard to hold office until the first day of Febru- 
ary, A. D. 1911. At the January session of the general assembly, 
A. 1>. 1909, and at the January session of the general assembly in 
every year thereafter, the governor, with the advice and consent of 
the senate, shall appoint one member of said board to hold office 
until the first day of February in the third year after his ap¬ 
pointment, to succeed the member of such board whose term will 
next expire: Provided, that any vacancy which may occur in said 
board when the general assembly is not in session shall be filled 
by the governor until the next session thereof, when lie shall, with 
the advice and consent of the senate, appoint some person to fill 
such vacancy for the remainder of the term. Each member of 
said board shall hold office until his successor is appointed and 
qualified. Any member of said board may be removed by the gov¬ 
ernor, with the advice and consent of the senate, for such cause as 
he and the senate shall deem sufficient, and shall express in the 
order of removal. Each member of said board shall give a bond in 
the sum of one thousand dollars, with surety or sureties to be ap¬ 
proved by the general treasurer, conditioned for the faithful per¬ 
formance of his duties, and shall take the oath provided by law 
for public officers. 

Sec. 3. Said state board of registration in embalming shall 
organize as soon as may be after their appointment and qualifica¬ 
tion by electing one of their members chairman and one of their 
members secretary, and one of their members treasurer, and such 

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organization shall continue until the appointment of any new 


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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


member of said board of registration, except in case of any va¬ 
cancy in any office, in which case such vacancy may be filled forth¬ 
with : Provided, that the office of secretary and treasurer may be 
filled by the same member. The secretary of said board shall keep 
a record of all its proceedings, issue all notices and certificates, 
and attest all such papers and orders as said board shall direct; 
and the secretary shall perform such other duties as shall be des¬ 
ignated by said board. Said board shall hold two regular meet¬ 
ings in each year, one on the first Tuesday of May, one on the first 
Monday of November, and such additional meetings at such times 
and places as they may determine. 

Sec. 4. Said board shall have power to adopt rules and regula¬ 
tions for conducting examinations to be held under this act. Said 
examinations shall be held at least once a year in the city of Provi¬ 
dence and elsewhere in the discretion of said board. Such exam¬ 
inations shall be held upon the theory and practice of embalming, 
and such other relevant subjects as said board may determine. 
Such board shall issue to each applicant passing a satisfactory ex¬ 
amination a certificate, signed bv the chairman and secretary of 
said board, entitling such person to practice in this state as a 
registered embalmer for the annual period stated in such license, 
or until such certificate shall be revoked as hereinafter provided 
in this act. Said board shall fix the time when all said licenses 
shall expire. Said board shall keep a register in which shall be 
entered the names of all the persons to whom certificates are is¬ 
sued under this act, and said register shall be open at all times to 
public inspection at the office of the secretary of said board. 

Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the board, immediately upon its 
organization, to notify all persons engaged in the embalming of 
dead human bodies in this state of the provisions of this act; and 
such persons so notified who have been engaged in the embalming 
of dead human bodies as aforesaid prior to the passage of this 
act shall, upon their application and the payment of a fee of five 


BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


19 


dollars to said board, be registered as embalmers, and shall re¬ 
ceive a certificate thereof to the time fixed by said board for the 
expiration of said licenses. 

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Sec. G. Said board shall charge for the examination and certifi¬ 
cate provided for in this act a fee of five dollars, payable by said 
applicant at the time of filing his application. In case of the fail¬ 
ure on the part of any applicant to attend the examination at the 
date specified by said board, on sufficient excuse said applicant 
may, at the discretion of said board, appear and be examined at 
any subsequent meeting of said board, without charge, and in case 
of failure to pass a satisfactory examination any applicants may, 
in the discretion of said board, have a re-examination upon the 
payment of the further sum of three dollars. Every registered 
embalmer shall, after his registration, on such date as said board 
may determine, pay to the secretary of said board an annual fee 
of three dollars for the renewal of his registration. 

Sec. 7. The actual expenses of said board shall be paid out of 
the funds received from applicants for examinations: Provided } 
that in no event shall such expenses be a charge against the state. 
After all necessary expenses of said board have been paid by the 
treasurer thereof out of the moneys received by it from said fees, 
including a salary of one hundred dollars a vear to each of the 
members of said board, if there be funds for that purpose, the 
balance of the moneys received by it from said fees under this act 
shall be paid to the general treasurer. No moneys shall be ap¬ 
plied to the payment of the expenses of said board or of said sal¬ 
aries, except that received from said fees as aforesaid. 

Sec. 8. Said board shall present anually to the general assem¬ 
bly, in the month of January, a detailed statement of the receipts 
and disbursements of said board during the preceding year, with 
a statement of its acts and proceedings and such recommenda¬ 
tions as said board may deem proper. 


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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


Sec. 9 . Said board shall have power to revoke any certificate of 
registration, granted by it under this act, for gross incompetency, 
for unprofessional conduct, or for other cause sufficient in the 
judgment of said board: Provided , that before any certificate 
shall be so revoked, the holder thereof shall have notice in writing 
of the charge or charges against him, and shall have reasonable 
opportunity to be heard in his defence. Any person whose cer¬ 
tificate has been so revoked may apply to have the same reissued, 
and the same shall be reissued to him upon a satisfactory showing 
that such disqualification has ceased. Said board shall have 
power by its chairman to summon any person to appear as a Avit- 
ness and testify at any bearing by said board under the provi¬ 
sions of this act, and to examine and to administer oaths to such 
witnesses. Any person aggrieved by any decision or ruling of 
said board mav, within thirty days, exclusive of Sundavs and lioli- 
days, after receiving notice of said decision, appeal therefrom to 
the superior court sitting at Providence, by filing therein his rea¬ 
sons of appeal, and said superior court shall, as soon as may be 
after such notice to said board as shall be directed by the court, 
hear and determine said appeal, following the course of equity, 
and subject to all the rights of parties in such causes. 

Sec. 10 . Nothing in this act shall prohibit any person from 
serving as an apprentice under the personal supervision of a regis-. 
tered embalmer: Provided, such apprentice shall first file with 
the secretary of said board a statement in writing, showing the 
name and place of business of his employer, and the date of the 
beginning of such employment, and the full name, age, and resi¬ 
dence of such apprentice. No such apprentice shall be author¬ 
ized to advertise or hold himself out to the public as a registered 
embalmer. Any person duly qualified and complying with the 

provisions of this act may be licensed as a registered embalmer, 

» 

although not in business on his oavii account. 

Sec. 11. Whoever, not being registered as aforesaid, or Avliose 


BOA HD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


21 


license shall have expired or have been revoked as aforesaid, shall 
by himself, or agent or servant, unless such agent or servant is so 
registered, engage in the business of the embalming of dead hu¬ 
man bodies, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hun¬ 
dred dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two 
months, or by both, in the discretion of the court. 

Sec. 12. This act shall take effect upon its passage for the ap¬ 
pointment of commissioners, the examinations of applicants, and 
the conduct of the business of said board. For all other purposes 
this act shall take effect upon June 1. A. I). 1908. 





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JANUARY SESSION, 1910. 


CHAPTER 121 OF THE GENERAL LAWS, AS AMENDED BY 
CHAPTER 575 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS, PASSED AT 
THE JANUARY SESSION, A. D. 1910, ENTITLED, “OF 
THE REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MAR¬ 
RIAGES.” 


Section 1. The town clerks of the several towns, or any person 
whom the board of aldermen of any city, or the town council of 
any town, may appoint for that purpose, shall obtain, chronolog¬ 
ically record and index, as required by the forms prescribed by 
section three of this chapter, all information concerning births, 
marriages, and deaths occurring among the inhabitants of their 
respective towns; and on or before the first Monday in March, an- 
nuallv, shall make duly certified returns thereof to the secretary 
of the state board of health for the year ending on the thirty-first 
day of December next preceding, accompanying the same with a 
list of the persons required by law to make returns to them who 
have neglected to do so, and with such remarks relating to the ob¬ 
ject of this chapter as they may deem important to communicate. 

Sec. 2. The secretary of the state board of health shall receive 
the returns made in pursuance of the preceding section, and an¬ 
nually make a general abstract and report thereof, in form as pre¬ 
scribed by section three of 'this chapter, and publish not exceeding 
one thousand copies thereof; and for preparing, tabulating and 




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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


publishing said annual report, such sum as may be provided by 
law shall be paid to the state registrar. Said returns, after such 
report is prepared, shall be deposited in the office of the secretary 


of state, who shall cause the same to be arranged, full alphabet¬ 
ical indices of all the names to be made, and the whole to be bound 
in volumes of convenient size and carefully preserved in his office. 


Sec. 3. The blank forms required to carry out the provisions 
of this chapter shall, on application, be furnished by the secretary 
of the state board of health to clergymen, physicians, undertakers, 
town clerks, clerks of meetings of the Society of Friends, and 
other persons requiring them, substantially as follows: The rec¬ 
ord of a birth shall state the date and place of birth, name of the 
child, if it has any, the sex and color of the child, number of child 
of the mother, whether born alive or still born, the name and sur¬ 
name, age, color, residence, and birthplace of the parents, and the 
occupation of the father, and the time of recording, so far as the 
same can be ascertained. The record of a marriage shall state the 
date of the marriage, place, name, residence, and official station of 
the person by whom married, names and surnames of the parties, 
age, color, occupation, and residence of each, condition (that is, 
whether single or widowed), what marriage (that is, whether 
first, second, third, or other marriage) , the occupation, birthplace, 
and name of their parents, and the time of recording, so far as the 
same can be ascertained. The record of deaths shall state the 
date of death, name-and surname of deceased, the sex, color, and 
condition, whether single or married, age, occupation, place of 
death, place of birth, names and birthplace of parents, disease or 
cause of death, the name and relation to the deceased of the per¬ 
son furnishing such information, place of burial and the time of 
recording, so far as can be ascertained: Provided however, that 
still-births shall be recorded both as births and deaths, but sep¬ 
arately from the records of both births or deaths. 


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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


4. Every meeting of the Society of Friends, clergyman 
and all others authorized to join persons in marriage, shall make 
a faithful record of every such rite performed by them, in manner 
and form aforesaid, and return the same for the last preceding 


month on or before the second Monday of every month, to the 
town clerk of the town in which such rite shall have been per¬ 
formed; and no marriage shall be solemnized until the parties 
shall have signed and delivered to the person about to solemnize 
it, or to the clerk of a meeting of the Society of Friends, a certifi¬ 
cate containing the information required for the record of a mar¬ 


riage as prescribed by this chapter. 


Sec. 5. The town clerk of every town shall annually, in the 
month of January, collect the information required by this chap¬ 
ter in relation to all children born in the town during the year 
ending on the thirty-first day of December next preceding. 

Sec. 6 . Physicians and midwives shall, on or before the fifth 
day of each month, report to the clerk of each city or town a cor¬ 
rect list of all children born therein during the month next pre¬ 
ceding, at whose birth they were present, stating the date and 
place of each birth, the name of the child, if it has any, the sex 
and color of the child, the name, place of birth and residence of 
the parents, and the occupation of the father. The fee of the phy¬ 
sician or midwife shall be twenty-five cents for each birth so re¬ 
ported, and shall be paid by the city or town in which the report 
is made. 


Sec. 7. Whenever any person shall die, or any still-born child 
be brought forth, in this state, the undertaker or embalmer who 
has charge of the body shall obtain and return to the town clerk 
or registrar a certificate of death, prepared in accordance with 
section 3 of this chapter, and upon a blank to be furnished by the 
secretary of the state board of health. The statement of facts re- 


BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


25 


lating to the disposition of the body shall be signed by the under¬ 
taker or person acting as such. 

The medical certificate shall be made and signed by the phy¬ 
sician, if any, last in attendance on the deceased. But whenever 
the body of a person is lying dead in any town or city, who has 
been unattended, in his or her last sickness, by a physician regis¬ 
tered to practice in this state, the town or city clerk, or in the city 
of Providence the city registrar, shall call upon a registered phy¬ 
sician, or the medical examiner of the district in which the re¬ 
mains are lying, to inquire into and to certify as to the cause and 
manner of death, and shall allow to said physician or medical ex¬ 
aminer the fee of two dollars, which shall be paid out of the town 
or city treasury of said town or city upon the order of said town 
or city clerk or registrar: And provided , however , that whenever 
the medical examiner is called and finds upon inquiry that the 
cause is within the provisions of Chapter 350 of the General Laws, 
his services shall be rendered and fees paid in accordance with the 
provisions of said chapter 356. Whoever shall sign the medical 
certificate of death shall state the cause of death so as to show the 
course of disease or sequence of causes resulting in the death, giv¬ 
ing the primary cause, and also the contributory causes, if any, 
and the duration of each. Indefinite and unsatisfactory state¬ 
ments shall not be held sufficient for issuing a burial or removal 
permit; and any certificate which contains only indefinite state¬ 
ments, or statements unsatisfactory to the secretary of the state 
board of health, shall be returned to the physician for correction 
and definition. Causes of death which may be the result of either 
disease or violence shall be carefully defined; and, if from vio¬ 
lence, its nature shall be stated, and whether probably accidental, 
suicidal, or homicidal. Every certificate shall be written legibly 
in unfading black ink or with a black record typewriter ribbon. 

Sec. 8. Any person registered as an embalmer by the state 


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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


board of registration in embalming shall be an undertaker, and 
may act as such in any town or city in the state. And the super- 
intendent of any state or town asylum, hospital or similar institu¬ 
tion, or any cemetery corporation, may act as undertaker, if he 
shall first register his name with the state board of registration in 
embalming. No fee shall be charged any such superintendent for 
such registration. No person shall act as undertaker or shall 
bury, deposit in a vault or tomb, cremate, or otherwise dispose of, 
or remove from any town or city in the state, the dead body of any 
person or of any still-born child, except he be a registered em- 
baliner or undertaker registered as herein provided. 

Sec. 9. No person shall bury, deposit in a vault or tomb, cre¬ 
mate, or otherwise dispose of, or remove from any town or city in 
the state, the dead body of any person or of any still-born child, 
until a permit for burial, or removal, or other disposition shall 
have been properly issued by the town clerk or registrar of the 
town or city in which the death occurred ; and no such burial or 
removal permit shall be issued by said clerk or registrar until a 
certificate of death lias been filed with him as provided in section 
7 of this chapter : Provided , that when a dead body is trans¬ 
ported into a town or city for burial, and said death occurred out¬ 
side of the state, then the transit or removal permit issued in ac¬ 
cordance with the law and health regulations of the place where 
the death occurred shall be accepted, by the town clerk or regis¬ 
trar of the town or city into which the body has been transported 
for burial or other disposition, as a basis upon which he shall is¬ 
sue a local burial permit in the same way as if the death occurred 
in liis town or city. 

Sec. 10. No sexton or person in charge of any premises in 
which interments or entombments or other disposition of dead 
bodies are made shall inter, or permit the interment, entombment, 
or other disposition of any such body unless it is accompanied by 


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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 

a burial permit as herein provided. Each sexton or person in 
charge of any burial ground, tomb, or other place where disposi¬ 
tion is made of dead bodies shall indorse upon the permit the date 
and location of such entombment, interment, or other disposition, 
and shall return all permits so indorsed to' the town or city clerk 
or registrar of the town or city in which such interment or en¬ 
tombment is made, on or before the fifth day of the month next 
succeeding, and such town or city clerk or registrar shall, on or 
before the tenth day of the month next succeeding, return a copy 
thereof to the secretary of the state board of health. He shall 
also keep a record of all such interments, entombments, or other 
disposition of dead bodies made in or on the premises under his 
charge, stating the name of the deceased person, place of death, 
date of burial, and specific location or disposition of the remains, 
and the name and address of the undertaker; which record shall 
at all times be open to public inspection. 

Sec. 11. Any town may make ordinances more effectually to 
attain the objects herein contemplated. 

Sec. 12. The town clerks or persons appointed as aforesaid 
shall receive for each record of a death made and returned as re¬ 
quired by law, and for each record of a. marriage made and re¬ 
turned as required by law, twenty cents, to be paid to them out of 
their respective town treasuries: Provided, that the yearly com¬ 
pensation to be paid out of the town treasury as aforesaid, to any 
one town clerk or person appointed as aforesaid, who shall per¬ 
form the duties prescribed by this chapter, shall not be less than 
five dollars. Undertakers and others making returns of deaths as 
required by sections seven and nine of this chapter shall receive, 
for each full report of a death made to the town clerk, five cents in 
the cities of Providence and Newport, and ten cents in the other 
towns of the state. 

For making a certified copy of any record of a birth, marriage, 


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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


or death, the town clerk or registrar shall be entitled to a fee of 
fifty cents from the applicant therefor. For making and trans¬ 
mitting the copies of records as required by section twenty of 
this chapter, the town clerks or registrars shall receive for each 
copy of a record of birth, marriage, or death, made and trans¬ 
mitted as prescribed, the sum of twenty cents, to be paid to them 
out of their respective town or city treasuries. 

Sec. 13. Every clergyman, physician, midwife, undertaker, 
town clerk, clerk of any meeting of the Society of Friends or 
other person, who shall wilfully or unreasonably neglect or refuse 
to perform any of the duties imposed on or required of him by this 
chapter, shall be fined not exceeding twenty dollars nor less than 
tAvo dollars for each offence, one-half thereof to the use of the 
town in Avliieh the offence shall occur and one-half thereof to the 
use of the person who shall complain of the same. 

Sec. 14. Every clergyman, physician, coroner, undertaker, 
medical-examiner, or clerk of anv meeting of the Society of 

u w? «y 

Friends, shall cause his name, residence and post-office address to 
be recorded in the town clerk’s office of the town where he resides. 

Sec. 15. No letters of administration or letters testamentary 

*v 

shall be granted by any court of probate upon the estate of any 
person, until the death of such person or the facts from which the 
same is presumed shall be duly certified, as near as may be, to the 
town clerk, in order that the same may be duly registered accord¬ 
ing to the provisions of this chapter. 

Sec. 1G. The town and city clerks and registrars of the several 
towns and cities shall have the custody of all records of births, 
deaths and marriages of their respective town®, whether made un¬ 
der the statutes now in force or any former statute, and a certifi¬ 
cate signed by them, certifying that any written or printed state¬ 
ment of any marriage, birth or death is a true copy of the record 


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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 

in their custody, shall he admitted as evidence of such marriage, 
birth or death. 

Sec. IT. Births, marriages, and deaths of the residents of a 
town or city which occur outside of such town or city shall be re¬ 
corded separately from those occurring in such town or city. 

Sec. IS. The secretary of the state board of health may, from 
time to time, vary the forms of returns and require such addi¬ 
tional information as he may consider necessary to accomplish the 
object of this chapter. 

Sec. 19. The town clerks or other officers appointed under this 
chapter to collect, record and return the births in the several 
• cities and towns, shall receive fees therefor as follows: For mak¬ 
ing record and return of these facts as required by law, twenty 
cents for each entry and return; to be paid by the city or town in 
which the birth is recorded. 

Sec. 20. The clerk or registrar of each town and city shall, on 

i 

the first day of each and every month, make a certified copy of all 
births, marriages, and deaths recorded in the books of said town 
or city during the previous month, whenever the parents of the 
child born, or the bride or the groom, or the deceased person, were 
resident in any other town or city in this state, or in any other 
state, at the time of said birth, marriage or death; and shall 
transmit such certified copies to the clerk or registrar of the town, 
city or state in which such parents of the child born, the bride or 
groom, or the deceased, were resident at the time of said birth, 
marriage or death, stating, in case of a birth, the name of the 
street and number of the house, if any, where such parents re¬ 
sided, the place of birth of such parents and the maiden name of 
the mother, whenever the same can be ascertained; and the clerk 
or registrar so receiving such certified copies shall record the same 
in the books kept for recording births, marriages, and deaths. 


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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


Such certified copies shall be made upon blanks to be furnished 
for that purpose by the secretary of the state board of health. 

Sec. 21. The town clerks of the several towns, or other persons 
appointed under this chapter to collect the births in the several 
towns, shall annuallv, in the month of January, collect the facts 
concerning the births within their respective towns required by 
this chapter, and shall, so far as practicable, at the same time col¬ 
lect the names of all persons liable to be enrolled in the militia, 
as required by title forty, and the census of all persons between 
the ages of five and fifteen years inclusive, as provided by chapter 
sixty-six, and shall receive therefor such compensation as the 
town council or the board of aldermen of their respective towns 
or cities shall determine: Provided, that in the city of Provi- 
dence the city registrar shall in the months of January and July 
of each vear cause to be collected the facts concerning the births 
within the city required by this chapter, and shall receive therefor 
such compensation as the board of aldermen shall determine. 

Sec. '22. Blanks for the foregoing purposes shall be furnished, 
on application therefor, on or before the first day of December in 
the year preceding, by the state board of health for the collection 
of births, by the adjutant-general for the taking of the enrolled 
militia, and by the commissioner of public schools for tlie census 
aforesaid. 


Sec. 23. The person or persons who shall discharge the duties 
required by section twenty-one of this chapter, if other than the 
town clerk, shall make full return thereof to the town clerk of his 
or their town, on or before the tenth day of February next follow- 
ing. 

Sec. 24. The returns required to be made by clerks of the su¬ 
perior court, in relation to divorces, to the secretary of the state 
board of health, or a prepared abstract thereof, shall be published 


BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


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in the annual report on the births, marriages, and deaths in the 
state. 

Sec. 25. If it shall come to the knowledge of a town clerk, or 
any person, appointed under the provisions of section one of this 
chapter, that any birth, marriage, or death which has occurred in 
his town or city has not been returned to him as required by this 
chapter, or lias not been recorded, such town clerk or person shall 
record the facts called for by section three of this chapter, to the 
extent he shall receive in any way any credible information of the 
same. If anv error shall be made in the return of any birth, mar- 
riage or death, or shall be discovered in the records of births, mar¬ 
riages or deaths, such error shall be corrected without erasure. 
In each case the source of information, from which the addition 
or correction is made, and the date of making the same shall be 
noted on the face of the record, and such town clerk or person 
shall attest the same by his signature thereon. Such town clerk 
or person shall annually, on or before the first Monday in March, 
make duly certified returns to the secretary of the state board of 
health of all such additions and corrections made during the year 
ending on the thirty-first day of December next preceding. Such 
town clerk or person shall receive for each such additional record 
and return of a death, marriage, or birth made by him the same 
fees specified in sections twelve and nineteen of this chapter for 
recording and returning deaths, marriages, and births respect¬ 
ively. 




































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RULES AND REGULATIONS 


OF THE 


State Board of Registration in Embalming, 


LIST OF REGISTERED EMBALMERS 


AND 


Rules for Transportation of the Dead. 


1912. 


























To the Registered Embalmer. 


The Board of Registration in Embalming herewith presents 
you with a list giving the name and registered number of all ene 
balmers who have complied with the law and are legally entitled 
to practice in this State. All persons practicing embalming other 
than those named in this official list, and having the official card 
issued by this Board, are doing so in violation of the law, and 
will be prosecuted upon complaint being made and proper infor¬ 
mation being furnished to this Board. 

Renewal fees are due in advance, and should be paid to the 
secretary not later than December 15th of each year, thereby 
avoiding any mistakes or misunderstandings that are liable to 
occur. 

All changes of address, removals, and deaths of registered em- 
balmers should be reported to this office promptly, so that the sec¬ 
retary may always have the correct address and a proper register 
of all embalmers qualified to practice embalming in this State. 

And in addition to the acts of the General Assembly of Rhode 
Island creating the State Board of Registration in Embalming and 
the registration of births, marriages and deaths we publish the 
rules and regulations with regard to transportation of corpses as 
adopted at the conferences of the General Baggage Agents in Jan¬ 
uary, 1911. 

Respectfully, 

JOHN J. McCANNA, Chairman. 

ROBERT C. COTTRELL, 

CHARLES E. BARBER, Secretary. 



Official List of Registered Embalmers of the State of 
Rhode Island, February 1, 1912. 


96.* Armstrong, John F.Providence. 

38.* Armstrong, Myers R.Providence. 

103. Arnold, A. Herbert.Providence. 

31. Avery, George W.Hope Valley. 

30.* Avery, Samuel R.Hope Valley. 

165. Bacon, Oliver.Warren. 

219.* Bailey, Robert P.Providence, R. I. 

184. * Ballou, Bertram A.Providence. 

77.* Barber, Charles E.Providence. 

148.* Bates, Orren W.Sterling, Conn. 

32. * Bellows, Dexter W.Pawtucket. 

130.* Bennett, Daniel E.Anthony. 

132. Berry, James B.Pawtucket. 

123.* Berry, Thomas E.Pawtucket. 

50. Bovce, Henry J.Providence. 

244.* Boyce, James H.Providence. 

183.* Boyce, William P.Providence. 

185. * Bristol, Bernard L.East Providence. 

243.* Brown, George E.Pawtucket. 

210.* Bryant, Earle Vincent.Central Falls. 

225.* Buffington, Hiram B.Taunton, Mass. 

236.* Burns, Richard M.Central Falls. 

25. Carder, Frederick D.Boston, Mass. 

63.* Carpenter, Arthur W.Providence. 


* Passed a satisfactory examination. 




























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28.* Carroll, Eugene F.Providence. 

27. Carroll, Robert F...Providence. 

10. Chase, Clarence O.Providence. 

51. * Cheetham, Charles X.Pawtucket. 

52. Cheetham, George B.Central Falls. 

102.* Clark, Samuel M.Centreville. 

145.* Coffey, Patrick J.Providence. 

229.* Comstock, Lewis H. . . Providence. 

4o. Comstock, Melville H.Providence. 

242.* Cooney, John A.Valley Falls. 

33.* Corrigan, John J .Harrisville. 

75." Cottrell, Robert C.Newport. 

7.* Coutanche, John J.Providence. 

GO. Cranston, George C..Wickford. 

81. Day, Elmer H].Block Island. 

175. DePasquale, Angelo .Providence. 

100. Di Iorio, John .Providence. 

246.* Donahue, Thomas J.Providence. 

200/"' Douty, Albert S.Providence. 

9.* Drabble, Irving H.Providence. 

163.* Duffy, Augustus P.Bristol. 

207.* Duffy, James Joseph.Valley Falls. 

61.* Dunphy, James A.Newport. 

238.* EJastwood, Richard H.Valley Falls. 

83. Edwards, James W.Providence. 

42.* Enos, Joseph M.Providence. 

101. Farrell, Edward F.Providence. 

97. Fenner, Herbert A.Centredale. 

233.* Farrington, Harry B.Franklin, Mass. 

134. Ferrara, Domenico .Providence. 

205.* Ferrara, Teresa A.Providence. 


* Passed a satisfactory examination. 


































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A 


126. 

72. 

171. 
37. 
41. 

117. 

181. 

82. 

140. 
170. 
237.* 
147. 
125.* 
139.* 
203.* 

65. 

69.* 

172. 
84. 

190.* 

234.* 

90 * 

WiaJ • 

79. 

213.* 

231.* 

105. 

95.* 

141. 
197.* 

1 . 

14. 


Finnerty, James .... 
Flynn, Daniel J. ... 
Flynn, J. Joseph.. .. 
Flynn, Thomas F. .. 
Freeborn, Richard H 
Fuller, James R.... 
Gaffney, Joseph W.. 
Gattone, Thomas . .. 
Gavitt, Charles H... 
Gilbert, Alexander . 
Gilbert, Chester A. . 
Gorman, Daniel .... 
Gorman, Harold D. . 
Gorman, James .... 
Gormley, Frank L... 
Gough, James F. ... 
Gorton, Frank R. ... 

Goyer, Peter. 

Grandpre, George De 
Hagan, Arthur C. .. 

Hall, Avery G. 

Handy, Merrill B.. . 

Harlow, John F. 

Harlow, John F., Jr. 
Harlow, Joseph F... 
Hennessey, John H. . 
Heroux, Lucien 
Herrick, Richard .. . 

Hicks, John B. 

Hill, Charles G. 

Hill, Frank R. 


Arctic. 

Central Falls. 
Providence. 

Pawtucket. 

Newport. 

Auburn. 

Westerly. 

Providence. 

Westerly. 

Woonsocket. 

Woonsocket. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Arctic. 

Anthony. 

Woonsocket. 

Harris ville. 

Providence. 

Woonsocket. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Central Falls. 
Woonsocket. 

North Westport, Mass. 
East Greenwich. 

East Greenwich. 


•Passed a satisfactory examination. 


































BOARD OP REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


5 


78.* Iloldredge, Ernon M.Providence. 

189.* Holland, Bernard J.Providence. 

220.* Horton, Frank C.East Providence. 

247.* Houlihan, Dennis F.Newport. 

202.* Hudson, Janies H.Providence. 

245.* Ineson, J. William.Wakefield. 

136. Jones, Robert F.Providence. 

151.* Judson, Harry P.Pawtucket. 

116.* Juhlin, Alfred .Providence. 

6. Iveefe, John E.Providence. 

137. * Kelley, Mary F.North Smithfield. 

192.* Kennedy, Louis E.Danielson, Conn. 

90. Kilgore, Frank .Providence. 

111. King, Patrick H.Providence. 

110. King, Thomas J...Providence. 

138. Knowles, Ellmer F.Providence. 

2. Knowles, Horace E.Providence. 

230.* Lalime, Napoleon .Manville. 

209. Lai or, Frank J.Millville, Mass. 

59. Landy, John J.Providence. 

73. Langley, Frederick E.Newport. 

214.* Lariviere, J. Arthur.Fall River, Mass. 

ISO. Larochelle, N. J.Woonsocket. 

222.* Larochelle, Wilfrid W.Woonsocket. 

211.* Lauzon, Joseph .Woonsocket. 

99. Lee, Frederick J.Pawtucket. 

80. Lee, Frederick P.Newport. 

74. Levesque, Louis E.Manville. 

153.* Lillibridge, H. Edward.Danielson, Conn. 

241.* Lowe, Frank Marshall.Providence. 

94.* Lynch, Maurice .Providence. 

7 


* Passed a satisfactory examination. 


































6 


HOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


228.* 

29.* 

112 . 

177. 

40 . 

13. 

12.* 

76.* 

128.* 

221 .* 

70. 

71. 


164. 

193.* 

160. 

240.* 

201 .* 

55.* 

218.* 

235.* 

17. 

48.* 

174. 

3. 

206.* 


212 .* 

223.* 

195.* 

182.* 

133.* 

18. 


Mackenzie, Ira M. 

Manning, Daniel E. 

Manning, John F. 

Mariana, Antonio .. 

Marsh, Samuel W. 

Me A loon, Augustine F.. 

McAloon, Vincent J. 

McCanna, John J. 

McCanna, Raymond P.... 
McCanna, William L. ..., 

McCarthy, Dennis F. 

McCarthy, John F J. 

McDermott, Patrick F... 

McGinn, John L.. 

McGinn, Sylvester. 

McGrath, Thomas F. ... 
McGuinness, Edward J. . 

McKay, Robert. 

McKenna, Peter F. ... .. 
McMahon, Patrick T. ... 
McMurrough, Frank .... 

Mellor, William G. 

Monahan, Ellen L. 

Monahan, Thomas F. ... 
Monahan, Thomas F., Jr. 

Montgomery, Fred L. 

Moore, Edward H. 

M-ulgrew, William E. 

Mulligan, ITenry P. 

Munro, Edward Burnside 
Murphy, Joseph T. 


Auburn. 

Pawtucket. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Newport. 

Pawtucket. 

Pawtucket. 

Woonsocket. 

Woonsocket. 

Woonsocket. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Fall River, Mass. 

North Attleboro, Mass. 
North Attleboro, Mass. 
Peace Dale. 

Providence. 

Bristol. 

Providence. 

Arctic. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Wickford. 

Blackstone, Mass. 

Providence. 

Woonsocket. 

Westerly. 


* Passed a satisfactory examination. 


































217/ 

115. 

47. 

159. 

49. 

91. 

106. 

196/ 

20 . 

8/ 

64/ 

198/ 

232/ 

86 . 

88 . 


34. 

19/ 

67. 

68 / 

26. 

5/ 

155/ 


57. 

46. 

191/ 

204/ 

66/ 

15/ 

98. 


215.* 


24/ 


BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 7 


Nardolillo, Benedetto 

Negus, C. A. 

Noyes, Asa, Jr. 

O’Neill, Daniel F. ... 
O’Neill, Patrick H.. 
O’Neill, William H. . 

Page, Charles H. 

Paradis, L. O. 

Paterson, Luther W. 
Phillips, Henry S. . . 
Platt, Chester H. ... 

Potter, Harry L. 

Prata, Raffaele. 

Quinn, Thomas. 

Quinn, Thomas J. .. 
Quinn, Timothy S. .. 
Randall, Frank E... 

Read, Byron . 

Read, Herman B. ... 

Reid, Edwin L. 

Reilly, James D. 

Remington, Frank E 
Ring, Augustus P. . . 
Robert, Thomas .... 
Rodrigues, Manuel . . 

Roy, George A. 

Roy, Norbet. 

Ryan, Charles H. ... 
Ryan, Charles L. ... 
Sanderson, Harry F. 
Saunders, Frank B. . 


Providence. 

Block Island. 

Westerly. 

Pawtucket. 

Newport. 

Pawtucket. 

Providence. 

Fall River, Mass. 
Phenix. 

Pawtucket. 

Providence. 

North Westport, Mass. 
Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Woonsocket. 

Providence. 

Anthony. 

Anthony. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Pawtuxet. 

Providence. 

Arctic. 

Fall River, Mass. 
Manville. 

Pawtucket. 

Providence. 

Pawtucket. 

Providence. 

Central Falls. 


♦Passed a satisfactory examination. 


































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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


226.* 

58. 

85 .* 


113. 

239.* 

156.* 


216.* 

92.* 

191.* 

162. 

161. 


93. 

186.* 

101 . 


107. 

108. 
23.* 

121 . 


120 . 

208.* 

199.* 

11 .* 


13. 

39.* 


21 . 

56.* 


112 . 

129. 

178. 

11 .* 

157.* 


Silva, Marianno J. 

Skeffington, James F. . 
Slocum, James Horace. 
Smith, William H . ... 
Spaulding, Edgar L. .. 

Sperry, Henry N. 

Stapleton, John F. 

Steere, Varnum . 

Stone, Charles F. 

Sullivan, James E. ... 
Sullivan, Michael H. .. 
Sutton, John Thomas. . 

Sweatman, Roy C. 

Tanner, John F. 

Therien, Arsene . 

Therien, Wilfrid . 

Tierney, Charles H. . .. 

Tierney, Frank P. 

Tobin, Michael J. 

Todd, John P. 

Tore, Charles W. 

Trottier, Cleophas A. . 

Trottier, John B. 

Wachschlager, Hugo E 

Walsh, John H. 

Ward, Joseph E. 

Waring, James H. 

Watson, Frank E. 

Whipple, Andrew B... 
Whipple, Frank M.... 
Whiting, Arthur E. . .. 


Fall River, Mass. 
Providence. 

Wakefield. 

Warren. 

Woonsocket. 

North Attleboro, Mass. 
Providence. 

Pascoag. 

Attleboro. 

Fall River, Mass. 

Fall River, Mass. 
Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Woonsocket. 

Woonsocket. 

Pawtucket. 

Pawtucket. 

Bristol. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Pawtucket. 

Fall River, Mass. 

, Providence. 

, Greenville. 

. Pascoag. 

.North Attleboro, Mass. 


* Passed a satisfactory examination. 


































BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


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158.* Whiting, William L.Providence. 

36. Wilbur, Frederick .Bristol. 

35. Wilbur, George M.Warren. 

150.* Williams, Fred E.Upton, Mass. 

149.* Williams, George Z.Upton, Mass. 

122.* Williams, James H.East Providence. 

167. * Win ward, James E.Fall River, Mass. 

176. Wood, Albert E.North Scituate. 

154.* Wood, Albertus F.Danielson, Conn. 

168. York, Andrew W.Providence. 


List of Persons holding Undertakers’ Licenses in ac¬ 
cordance with Chapter 575, Section 8 of the Public 
Laws, Passed at the January session, A. D. 1910. 


11 Andrews, George W., Superintendent, Slatersville Cemetery, 
Slatersville, R. I. 

2 Brown, John T., Superintendent, Dexter Asylum, Providence, 

R. I. 

7 Dickey, E. Howard, Superintendent, Union Cemetery, North 
Smithfield, R. I. 

5 Dyer, Daniel P., Superintendent, Pocasset Cemetery, Cran¬ 

ston, R. I. 

10 Estv, Aaron S., Superintendent, Grace Church Cemetery, 
Providence, R. I. 

6 Gardiner, Alonzo J., Superintendent, Elm Grove Cemetery, 

North Kingstown, R. I. 


* Passed a satisfactory examination. 
















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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


3 Harrington, James T., Superintendent, Catholic Cemeteries, 

Providence, R. I 

12 Lyon, George P., Superintendent, Town Asylum, Foster, R. I. 
8 Mathewson, Thomas G., Superintendent, Quidnessett Ceme¬ 
tery, North Kingstown, R. I. 

0 Risk, Winthrop A., M. D., Superintendent, State Home and 
School, Providence, R. I. 

1 Warren, James, Jr., Superintendent, North Burial Ground, 
Providence, R. I. 

4 Yorston, Henry P. Superintendent, East Greenwich Ceme¬ 

tery, East Greenwich, R. T. 


§>tntv of SUtate ilslmtii mb JJramitettre Jlkntatimtfl. 


STATE BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


Rules and Regulations. 

Rule 1. All applications for registration must be made to the 
State Board of Registration in Embalming, upon the blank form 
issued by this Board, which must be filled out and signed by the 
applicant, and bear the signature of a reputable person, residing 
in the same city or town as the applicant, certifying that the ap¬ 
plicant is twenty-one years of age, of good moral character, and 
has obtained a common school education. 

The applicant must make affidavit to his signature, and that 
the statements contained in the application are true and in the 
handwriting of the persons whose names are subscribed thereto. 

Rule 2. Section 1. The applicant must have taken a regular 
course of instruction at a reputable school of embalming whose 
course of instruction is satisfactory to this Board; or he must 
have had not less than one year’s experience in active work with 
a practicing embalmer; or 

Section 2. He must hold a certificate of “a licensed embalmer 1 ” 
from the examining board of another State whose examinations 
are satisfactory to this Board; and must have had not less than 
one year’s active work as a practicing embalmer. 

Rule 3. All applications must be accompanied by a fee of five 
dollars, as provided by Chapter 35, Section 6, of the General Laws 
of 1909. 




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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


Rule 4. No fee shall be returned when the applicant fails to 
pass, but he or she may appear before this Board for re-examina- 
tion upon the payment of a fee of three dollars, as provided by the 
above section of the General Laws. 

Bule 5. Section 1. All applications for examination must be 
filed, together with the fee of five dollars, in the office of the secre¬ 
tary of the State Board of Registration in Embalming, at least 
four days before the date of examination, in order to insure the 
examination of the applicant. 

Section 2. Seventy-five per cent, of answers, in a scale of one 
hundred, shall be required to entitle the applicant to registration. 

Rule G. Examinations for registration shall be held by the 
State Board of Registration in Embalming, at Providence, on the 
second Thursday of January and July of each year; and addi¬ 
tional meetings may be held at such other time and place as the 
Board may determine. 

Rule 7. Section 1. Every registered embalmer shall secure a 
renewal certificate before the first of January of each succeeding 
year, the fee for which (three dollars) shall be paid not later than 
December 15th of the year designated upon the certificate which 
he holds. Upon receipt of said fee a renewal card bearing the 
name, number, and date of expiration of his registration will be 
issued. 

All registered embalmers must show card of renewal upon re¬ 
quest of boards of health or persons authorized to issue permits. 

Section 2. Any person failing to comply with the preceding 
section shall appear before this Board for re-examination to en¬ 
title him or her to registration as provided by Rule 1. 

Rule 8. No embalming fluid, or any substitute therefor, shall 
be injected into the body of any person supposed to have come to 


BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


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death by violence, until a permit in writing, signed by a medical 
examiner, has been obtained. 

Rule 9. Section 1. The State Board of Registration in Em¬ 
balming may refuse to issue or renew certificates provided for in 
this act, to persons who have by false and fraudulent representa¬ 
tion obtained or sought to obtain practice in their profession; or 
who fail to comply with Chapter 121 of the General Laws of the 
State, as amended by Chapter 575 of the Public Laws, as passed 
at the January session, A. D. 1910, or of Chapter 35 of the Gen¬ 
eral Laws of 1909, or who are guilt}' of any other unprofessional 
or dishonorable conduct, or of anv violation of the rules of the 
State or local boards of health. 

Section 2. This Board may revoke such certificates for any of 
such or other like causes: Provided that no certificate shall be re¬ 
voked until the holder has been given reasonable notice of the 
charge or charges against him, and an opportunity for a full hear¬ 
ing before this Board. 

Rule 10. Boards of health, city or town clerks, or other per¬ 
sons authorized to issue permits, shall have a certified list of em- 
balmers, compiled and furnished by the State Board of Registra¬ 
tion in Embalming. 

Rule 11. The rules and regulations of the State Board of Reg¬ 
istration in Embalming have been adopted under the provisions 
of Chapter 35 of the General Laws of Rhode Island, and it is ex¬ 
pected that no transportation company operating in Rhode Island 
will receive the body of any person deceased until it has been pre¬ 
pared by a registered embalmer holding a certificate issued by the 
State Board of Registration in Embalming. 


Rules of the Rhode Island State Board of Registration 
in Embalming for the Transportation of the Dead. 


These Rules having been duly adopted, and approved by the State Board 

of Health, have the force of Law. 


Rule 1. The transportation of bodies dead of smallpox, Asi¬ 
atic cholera yellow fever, typhus fever or bubonic plague, is abso¬ 
lutely forbidden, except after cremation. 

Rule 2. The bodies of those who have died of diphtheria (mem¬ 
branous croup), scarlet fever (scarlatina, scarlet rash), glanders, 
anthrax or leprosy shall not be accepted for transportation unless 
prepared for shipment by being thoroughly disinfected by (a) ar¬ 
terial and cavity injection with an approved disinfectant fluid, (h) 
disinfecting and stopping of all orifices with absorbent cotton, and 
(c) washing the body with the disinfectant, all of which must be 
done by a registered embalmer, holding a certificate as such. Af¬ 
ter being disinfected as above, such body shall be enveloped in a 
layer of cotton not less than one inch thick, completely wrapped 
in a sheet and bandaged, and encased in an air-tight zinc, tin, cop¬ 
per, or lead-lined coffin, or iron casket, all joints and seams her¬ 
metically soldered, and all enclosed in a strong, tight, wooden box. 
Or the body, being prepared for shipment by disinfecting and 
wrapping as above, may be placed in a strong coffin or casket, and 
said coffin or casket encased in an air-tight zinc, copper, or tin 
case, all joints and seams hermetically soldered, and all enclosed 
in a strong outside wooden box. 

Rule 3. Bodies dead of typhoid fever, phthisis, puerperal fever, 
erysipelas, tuberculosis, and measles, or other dangerous communi¬ 
cable diseases other than those specified in Rules 1 and 2, may be 




BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


15 


received for transportation when prepared for shipment by filling 
cavities with an approved disinfectant, washing the exterior of the 
body with the same, stopping all orifices with absorbent cotton, 
and enveloping the entire body with a layer of cotton not less than 
one inch thick, and all wrapped in a sheet and bandaged, and en¬ 
cased in an air-tight coffin or casket: Provided } that this shall 
apply only to bodies which can reach their destination within 
forty-eight hours from time of death. In all other cases such 
bodies shall be prepared for transportation in conformity with 
Rfule 2. But when the body has been prepared for shipment by 
being thoroughly disinfected and arterially and cavity embalmed 
by a registered embalmer, the air-tight sealing and bandaging with 
cotton may be dispensed with. 

Rule 4. Bodies dead of diseases that are not contagious, in¬ 
fectious, or communicable may be received for transportation 
when encased in a sound coffin or casket and box, or enclosed in a 
strong outside wooden box: Provided, they reach their destina¬ 
tion within forty-eight hours from the time of death. If the body 
cannot reach its destination within forty-eight hours from time of 
death, it must be prepared for shipment by filling cavities with an 
approved disinfectant, washing the exterior of the body with the 
same, stopping all orifices with absorbent cotton, and enveloping 
the entire body with a layer of cotton not less than one inch thick, 
and all wrapped in a sheet and bandaged, and encased in an air¬ 
tight coffin or casket. But when the body has been prepared for 
shipment by being thoroughly disinfected and arterially and cav¬ 
ity embalmed by a registered embalmer, the air-tight sealing and 
the bandaging with cotton may be dispensed with. 

Rule 5. In eases of contagious, infectious, or communicable 
diseases, the body must not be accompanied by persons or articles 
which have been exposed to the infection of the disease, unless cer¬ 
tified by the health officers as having been properly disinfected; 


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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


and before selling passage tickets, agents shall carefully examine 
the transit permit and note the name of the passenger in charge and 
of any others proposing to accompany the body, and see that all nec¬ 
essary precautions have been taken to prevent the spread of the 
disease. The transit permit shall specifically state who is author¬ 
ized to accompany the remains. 

Rule 6. Every dead body must be accompanied by a person in 
charge, who must be provided with a passage ticket and also pre¬ 
sent a full first-class ticket marked “Corpse,” for the transporta¬ 
tion of the body, and a transit permit with undertaker's certifi¬ 
cate, name of deceased, date of death; age, place of death, cause of 
death, and if of a contagious, infectious, or communicable nature, 
the point to which the body is to be shipped; and when death is 
caused by any of the diseases specified in Rules 1 and 2, the name 
of the person or persons authorized to accompany the body. The 
undertaker’s certificate and paster shall be detached from the 
transit permit and pasted on the coffin box. The transit permit 
shall be handed to the passenger in charge of the corpse. The 
first coupon shall be detached by the official in charge of the bag¬ 
gage department of the initial line. 

Rule 7. Every disinterred body, dead from any disease or 
cause, shall be treated as infectious, or dangerous to the public 
health, and shall not be accepted for transportation unless said re¬ 
moval has been approved by the Board of Health, and all such dis¬ 
interred remains shall be enclosed in a hermetically sealed (sol¬ 
dered) zinc, tin, or copper-lined coffin or box. Bodies deposited 
in receiving vaults will be treated and considered the same as 
buried bodies. 

Rule 8. The bodies of all persons who die in Rhode Island 
that are to be shipped by public conveyance even though the initial 
point of such shipment be a railway station outside the State, 
must be prepared and forwarded in accordance with the regula¬ 
tions in force in the State of Rhode Island. 


NEW RULES. 


At a recent conference of Passenger Traffic Officials and General 
Baggage Agents of all the different Passenger Traffic Associations 
throughout the United States and Canada the following fundamental 
rules were adopted : 

Rules and Regulations with Regard to Transportation of 

Corpses. 

(a) A corpse will be accepted for transportation only on pre¬ 
sentation of legal form of transit permit, properly filled out and 
signed, showing that the body has been prepared for shipment in 
accordance with law. Such permit must he securely fastened on 
top or end of burial box. 

(b) A corpse Ay ill he transported in baggage service only when 
accompanied (on same train) by an adult escort. 

(c) A check will he issued to cover the transportation of a 
corpse, except that corpse checks will not be issued between points 
where wagon transfer is involved, except as noted in paragraph 
(e). The charge for the transportation of a corpse, not exceed¬ 
ing five hundred (500) pounds in weight, including casket and 
box, see paragraph (li) will he published first-class passenger 
fare, limited or unlimited, and the check will he issued only to 
the escort in charge, avIio will he required to present a ticket to 
cover his, or her own passage, endorsed “Corpse Escort” on con¬ 
tract and each coupon. Ticket Agents must also note in ink im¬ 
mediately under the endorsement the number of the corpse check. 


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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


(d) The minimum charge for the transportation of a corpse 
will be one dollar ($1.00). 

(e) The escort will be required to make all arrangements for 
the transfer at the points where wagon transfer is involved and 
to recheck therefrom except that at Chicago, Ill., the Parmelee 
Transfer Co. will transfer a corpse the same as baggage under 
check, and corpse checks may therefore be issued via Chicago re¬ 
gardless of wagon transfer at that point, unless other arrange¬ 
ments are desired by the escort. 

(f) The return portion of an adult passenger’s ticket orig¬ 
inally issued to the deceased, will be accepted in exchange for a 
corpse check via same route to destination of the ticket surren¬ 
dered, subject to weight as shown in paragraph (h) of this rule. 

(g) The return portion of a half-fare ticket, originally issued 
for the transportation of a child, when surrendered together with 
cash to cover the half-fare to destination and via route of the 
original ticket, will be accepted in payment of the transportation 
of the corpse subject to weight as shown in paragraph (h) of 
this rule, and a corpse check issued therefor. 

(h) When a corpse in casket and box, weighing more than 
five hundred (500) pounds, is presented for transportation in bag¬ 
gage service, there will be an additional charge at regular excess 
baggage rates for the weight in excess of five hundred (500) 
pounds, and the amount thus collected will be shown on the check 
issued. 

(i) Each corpse box must be plainly marked, showing name 
of deceased, route, destination and to whom consigned, and should 
be provided with not less than six (6) handles ; two on each side r 
and one on each end. 


BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


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(j ) Baggage of deceased may be checked to accompany a 
corpse, in accordance with the rules governing the transportation 
of a passenger’s baggage. 

(k) A corpse will not be accepted or transported, if in an of¬ 
fensive condition, or if fluids are escaping from the case, notwith¬ 
standing the presentation of permits or certificates. 

(l) Corpses, destined to points in the Provinces of New Bruns 
wick (Canada), or to pass through that province en route to des 
tination, must be enclosed in hermetically sealed leaden or metal¬ 
lic caskets or cases, regardless of the cause of death. 

(m) Corpses destined to points east of St. John, N. B., will 
be checked to St. John, N. B., only. Escorts must arrange there 
for transportation beyond. 


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JANUARY SESSION, A. D. 1908. 


CHAPTER 1575. 


AN ACT TO CREATE A STATE BOARD OF REGISTRATION 
IN EMBALMING, AND TO REGULATE TLIE BUSINESS 
OF EMBALMING. 


[Passed May 19, 1908.] 

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: 

Section 1 . It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the 
embalming of dead human bodies in this state unless he shall have 
first obtained a certificate of registration as provided in this act. 
Any person who shall have received, as hereinafter provided in 
this act, a certificate of his qualifications to practice as an ern- 
balmer, shall be deemed and known as a registered embalmer un¬ 
der the provisions of this act; and no person, unless he has re¬ 
ceived a certificate under the provisions of this act, shall advertise 
or in any manner use such name of registered embalmer, or any 
other words or letters, or any intimation thereof tending to indi¬ 
cate that the person so advertising or using the same is such regis¬ 
tered embalmer. 


Sec. 2. A board of examiners, to be known as the state board of 
registration in embalming, is hereby created to carry out the pur¬ 
poses and enforce the provisions of this act. The members of said 
board, when appointed, shall be citizens of this state, and shall 
have at least five years’ practical experience in the embalming of 
dead human bodies and been actively engaged therein on their 




BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


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own account in this state. At the present session of the general 
assembly the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, 
shall appoint one member of said board to hold office until the 
first day of February, A. I). 1909; one member of said board to 
hold office until the first day of February, A. I). 1910; and one 
member of said board to hold office until the first day of Febru-. 
ary, A. I). 1911. At the January session of the general assembly, 
A. I). 1909, and at the January session of the general assembly in 
every year thereafter, the governor, with the advice and consent of 
the senate, shall appoint one member of said board to hold office 
until the first day of February in the third year after his ap¬ 
pointment, to succeed the member of such board whose term will 
next expire: Provided, that any vacancy which may occur in said 
board when the general assembly is not in session shall be filled 
by the governor until the next session thereof, when he shall, with 
the advice and consent of the senate, appoint some person to fill 
such vacancy for the remainder of the term. Each member of 
said board shall hold office until his successor is appointed and 
qualified. Any member of said board may be removed by the gov¬ 
ernor, with the advice and consent of the senate, for such cause as 
he and the senate shall deem sufficient, and shall express in the 
order of removal. Each member of said board shall give a bond in 
the sum of one thousand dollars, with surety or sureties to be ap¬ 
proved bv the general treasurer, conditioned for the faithful per¬ 
formance of his duties, and shall take the oath provided by law 
for public officers. 

Sec. 3. Said state board of registration in embalming shall 
organize as soon as may be after their appointment and qualifica¬ 
tion bv electing one of their members chairman and one of their 
members secretary, and one of their members treasurer, and such 
organization shall continue until the appointment of any new 
member of said board of registration, except in case of any va¬ 
cancy in any office, in which case such vacancy may be filled forth- 


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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


with: Provided, that the office of secretary and treasurer may be 
filled by the same member. The secretary of said board shall keep 
a record of all its proceedings, issue all notices and certificates, 
and attest all such papers and orders as said board shall direct; 
and the secretary shall perform such other duties as shall be des¬ 
ignated by said board. Said board shall hold two regular meet¬ 
ings in each year, one on the first Tuesday of May, one on the first 
Monday of November, and such additional meetings at such times 
and places as they may determine. 

Sec. 4. Said board shall have power to adopt rules and regula¬ 
tions for conducting examinations to be held under this act. Said 
examinations shall be held at least once a year in the city of Provi¬ 
dence and elsewhere in the discretion of said board. Such exam¬ 
inations shall be held upon the theory and practice of embalming, 
and such other relevant subjects as said board may determine. 
Such board shall issue to each applicant passing a satisfactory ex¬ 
amination a certificate, signed by the chairman and secretary of 
said board, entitling such person to practice in this state as a 
registered embalmer for the annual period stated in such license, 
or until such certificate shall be revoked as hereinafter provided 
in this act. Said board shall fix the time when all said licenses 
shall expire. Said board shall keep a register in which shall be 
entered the names of all the persons to whom certificates are is¬ 
sued under this act, and said register shall be open at all times to 
public inspection at the office of the secretary of said board. 

Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the board, immediately upon its 
organization, to notify all persons engaged in the embalming of 
dead human bodies in this state of the provisions of this act; and 
such persons so notified who have been engaged in the embalming 
of dead human bodies as aforesaid prior to the passage of this 
act shall, upon their application and the payment of a fee of five 
dollars to said board, be registered as embalniers, and shall re- 


BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


23 


ceive a certificate thereof to the time fixed bv said board for the 
expiration of said licenses. 

Sec. G. Said board shall charge for the examination and certifi¬ 
cate provided for in this act a fee of five dollars, payable by said 
applicant at the time of filing his application. In case of the fail¬ 
ure on the part of any applicant to attend the examination at the 
date specified by said board, on sufficient excuse said applicant 
may, at the discretion of said board, appear and be examined at 
any subsequent meeting of said board, without charge, and in case 
of failure to pass a satisfactory examination any applicants may, 
in the discretion of said board, have a re-examination upon the 
payment of the further sum of three dollars. Every registered 
embalmer shall, after his registration, on such date as said board 
may determine, pay to the secretary of said board an annual fee 
of three dollars for the renewal of his registration. 

Sec. 7. The actual expenses of said board shall be paid out of 
the funds received from applicants for examinations: Provided, 
that in no event shall such expenses be a charge against the state. 
After all necessary expenses of said board have been paid by the 
treasurer thereof out of the monevs received bv it from said fees, 
including a salary of one hundred dollars a year to each of the 
members of said board, if there be funds for that purpose, the 
balance of the moneys received by it from said fees under this act 
shall be paid to the general treasurer. No moneys shall be ap¬ 
plied to the payment of the expenses of said board or of said sal¬ 
aries, except that received from said fees as aforesaid. 

Sec. 8. Said board shall present annually to the general assem¬ 
bly, in the month of January, a detailed statement of the receipts 
and disbursements of said board during the preceding year, with 
a statement of its acts and proceedings and such recommenda¬ 
tions as said board may deem proper. 


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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


Sec. 9. Said board shall have power to revoke any certificate of 
registration, granted by it under this act, for gross incompetency, 
for unprofessional conduct, or for other cause sufficient in the 
judgment of said board: Provided, that before any certificate 
shall be so revoked, the holder thereof shall have notice in writing 
of the charge or charges against him, and shall have reasonable 
opportunity to be heard in liis defence. Any person whose cer¬ 
tificate has been so revoked may apply to have the same reissued, 
and the same shall be reissued to him upon a satisfactory showing 
that such disqualification has ceased. Said board shall have 
power by its chairman to summon any person to appear as a wit¬ 
ness and testify at any hearing by said board under the provi¬ 
sions of this act, and to examine and to administer oaths to such 
witnesses. Any person aggrieved by any decision or ruling of 
said board may, within thirty days, exclusive of Sundays and holi¬ 
days, after receiving notice of said decision, appeal therefrom to 
the superior court sitting at Providence, by filing therein his rea¬ 
sons of appeal, and said superior court shall, as soon as may be 
after such notice to said board as shall be directed bv the court. 

t/ / 

hear and determine said appeal, following the course of equity, 
and subject to all the rights of parties in such causes. 

Sec. 10. Nothing in this act shall prohibit any person from 
serving as an apprentice under the personal supervision of a regis¬ 
tered embalmer: Provided, such apprentice shall first file with 
the secretary of said board a statement in writing, showing the 
name and place of business of his employer, and the date of the 
beginning of such employment, and the full name, age, and resi¬ 
dence of such apprentice. No such apprentice shall be author¬ 
ized to advertise or hold himself out to the public as a registered 
embalmer. Any person duly qualified and complying with the 
provisions of this act may be licensed as a registered embalmeiv 
although not in business on his own account. 


BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


25 


Sec. 11. Whoever, not being registered as aforesaid, or whose 
license shall have expired or have been revoked as aforesaid, shall 
by himself, or agent or servant, unless such agent or servant is so 
registered, engage in the business of the embalming of dead hu¬ 
man bodies, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hun¬ 
dred dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two 
months, or by both, in the discretion of the court. 

Sec. 12. This act shall take effect upon its passage for the ap¬ 
pointment of commissioners, the examinations of applicants, and 
the conduct of the business of said board. For all other purposes 
this act shall take effect upon June 1, A. D. 1908. 

A true copy, 


Attest: 


CHARLES P. BENNETT, 


Secretary of State. 


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EXTRACTS FROM CHAPTER 121 OF THE GENERAL LAWS, 
AS AMENDED BY CHAPTER. 575 OF THE PUBLIC 
LAWS, PASSED AT THE JANUARY SESSION, A. D. 
1910, ENTITLED “OF THE REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, 
DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES,” AND AS AMENDED AT 
THE JANUARY SESSION, A. D. 1911. 

Section 3. The record of deaths shall state the date of death, 
name and surname of deceased, the sex, color, and condition, 
whether single or married, age, occupation, place of death, place 
of birth, names and birthplace of parents, disease or cause of 
death, the name and relation to the deceased of the person fur¬ 
nishing such information, place of burial and the time of record- 
ing, so far as can be ascertained: Provided however, that still¬ 
births shall be recorded both as births and deaths, but separately 
from the records of both births or deaths. 

Sec. 7. Whenever any person shall die, or any still-born child 
be brought forth, in this state, the undertaker or embalmer who 
has charge of the body shall obtain and return to the town clerk 
or registrar a certificate of death, prepared in accordance with 
section 3 of this chapter, and upon a blank to be furnished by the 
secretary of the state board of health. The statement of facts re¬ 
lating to the disposition of the body shall be signed by the under¬ 
taker or person acting as such. 

The medical certificate shall be made and signed by the phy¬ 
sician, if any, last in attendance on the deceased. But whenever 
the body of a person is lying dead in any town or city, who has 



BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


27 


been unattended, in his or her last sickness, by a physician regis¬ 
tered to practice in this state, the town or city clerk, or in the city 
of Providence the city registrar, shall call upon a registered phy¬ 
sician, or the medical examiner of the district in which the re¬ 
mains are lying, to inquire into and to certify as to the cause and 
manner of death, and shall allow to said physician or medical ex¬ 
aminer the fee of two dollars, which shall be paid out of the town 
or city treasury of said town or city upon the order of said town 
or city clerk or registrar: And provided , however, that whenever 
the medical examiner is called and finds upon inquiry that the 
cause is within the provisions of Chapter 356 of the General Laws, 
his services shall be rendered and fees paid in accordance with the 
provisions of said chapter 356. Whoever shall sign the medical 
certificate of death shall state the cause of death so as to show the 
course of disease or sequence of causes resulting in the death, giv¬ 
ing the primary cause, and also the contributory causes, if any, 
and the duration of each. Indefinite and unsatisfactory state- 
rnents shall not be held sufficient for issuing a burial or removal 
permit; and any certificate which contains only indefinite state¬ 
ments, or statements unsatisfactory to the secretary of the state 
board of health, shall be returned to the physician for correction 
and definition. Causes of death which may be the result of either 
disease or violence shall be carefully defined; and, if from vio¬ 
lence, its nature shall be stated, and whether probably accidental, 
suicidal, or homicidal. Every certificate shall be written legibly 
in unfading black ink or with a black record typewriter ribbon. 

Sec. 8. Any person registered as an embalmer by the state 
board of registration in embalming shall be an undertaker, and 
may act as such in any town or city in the state. And the super¬ 
intendent of any state or town asylum, hospital or similar institu¬ 
tion, or any cemetery corporation, may act as undertaker, if he 
shall first register his name with the state board of registration in 


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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


embalming. No fee shall be charged any such superintendent for 
such registration. No person shall act as undertaker or shall 
bury, deposit in a vault or tomb, cremate, or otherwise dispose of, 
or remove from anv town or city in the state, the dead bodv of any 
person or of any still-born child, except he be a registered em- 
balmer or undertaker registered as herein provided. 

“Sec. 9. No person shall bury, deposit in a vault or tomb, cre¬ 
mate or otherwise dispose of, or remove from any town or city in 
the state, the dead body of any person or of any still-born child, 
until a permit for burial or removal, or other disposition, shall 
have been properly issued by the town clerk or registrar of the 
town or city in which the death occurred: Provided , that when a 
death occurs in the state institutions in the city of Cranston, or 
in the state sanatorium in the town of Burrillville, the superin¬ 
tendent or the person in charge thereof shall issue a burial or re¬ 
moval permit. Said superintendent or person in charge shall as 
soon as possible mail the certificate of death to the town or city 
clerk or registrar of the town or city where said death occurred. 
Said superintendent or person in charge shall charge a fee of 
twenty-five cents for each burial or removal permit he issues, 
which fee shall be paid by the undertaker who signs the certificate 
of death. No burial or removal permit shall be issued by said 
town clerk or registrar or other persons appointed as aforesaid 
until a certificate of death has been filed with him as provided in 
section seven of this chapter: and provided , that when a dead 
body is transported into this state for burial, and said death oc¬ 
curred outside of the state, then the transit or removal permit is¬ 
sued in accordance with the law and health regulations of the 
place where the death occurred shall be accepted by the sexton 
or person in charge at the place of burial as a burial permit.” 


“Sec. 10. No sexton or person in charge of any premises in 


BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


29 


which interments, or entombments, or other disposition of dead 
bodies are made, shall inter or permit the interment, entombment, 
or other disposition of any such body unless it is accompanied by 
a burial permit to the place of interment, entombment or other 
disposition as herein provided. Each sexton or person in charge 
of any burial ground, tomb, or other place where disposition is 
made of dead bodies shall indorse upon the burial permit the date 
and location of such interment, entombment or other disposition, 
and shall return all burial permits so indorsed to the town or city 
clerk or registrar of the town or city in which such interment, en¬ 
tombment, or other disposition is made, on or before the fifth day 
of the month next succeeding, and said sexton or person in charge 
aforesaid shall keep a record of all such interments, entombments, 
or other disposition of dead bodies made in or on the premises 
under his charge, stating the name of the deceased person, place 
of death, date of burial and specific location or disposition of the 
remains, and the name and address of the undertaker which rec¬ 
ord shall at all times be open to public inspection. 

“Sec. 12. The town clerks or persons appointed as aforesaid 
shall receive for each record of a death made and returned as re¬ 
quired by law, and for each record of a marriage made and re¬ 
turned as required by law, twenty cents, and for each burial per¬ 
mit issued as required by law twenty-five cents to be paid to them 
out of their respective town treasuries : Provided , that the yearly 
compensation to be paid out of the town treasury as aforesaid, to 
any one town clerk or person appointed as aforesaid who shall 
perform the duties prescribed by this chapter, shall not be less 
than ten dollars. Undertakers and others making returns of 
deaths as required by sections seven and nine of this chapter shall 
receive twenty-five cents for each return thus made, to be paid out 
of the town or city treasury of the town or city where the death 
occurred. For making a certified copy of any record of a birth, 


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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


marriage or death, the town clerk or registrar shall be entitled to 
a fee of fifty cents from the applicant therefor. For making and 
transmitting the copies of records as required by section twenty 
of this chapter, the town clerks or registrars shall receive for each 
copy of a record of a birth, marriage or death, made and trans¬ 
mitted as prescribed, the sum of twenty cents, to be paid to them 
cut of their respective town or city treasuries.” 


Sec. 13. Every clergyman, physician, midwife, undertaker, 
town clerk, clerk of any meeting of the Society of Friends or 
other person, who shall wilfully or unreasonably neglect or refuse 
to perform any of the duties imposed on or required of him by this 
chapter, shall be fined not exceeding twenty dollars nor less than 
two dollars for each offence, one-half thereof to the use of the 
town in which the offence shall occur and one-half thereof to the 
use of the person who shall complain of the same. 

Sec. 14. Every clergyman, physician, coroner, undertaker, 
medical-examiner, or clerk of any meeting of the Society of 
Friends, shall cause his name, residence and post-office address to 
be recorded in the town clerk’s office of the town where he resides. 






















































































































































































































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RULES AND REGULATIONS 

OF THE 

State Board of Registration in Embalming, 

LIST OF REGISTERED EMBALMERS 

AND 

* 

m 

Rules for Transportation of the Dead. 


1913. 

































'% «r ft. 

MAR 26 1314 




To the Registered Embalmer. 


The Board of Registration in Embalming herewith presents 
you with a list giving the name and registered number of all ein- 
balmers who have complied with the law and are legally entitled 
to practice in this State. All persons practicing embalming other 
than those named in this official list, and having the official card 
issued by this Board, are doing so in violation of the law, and 
will be prosecuted upon complaint being made and proper infor. 
mation being furnished to this Board. 

Renewal fees are due in advance, and should be paid to the 
secretary not later than December 15th of each year, thereby 
avoiding any mistakes or misunderstandings that are liable to 
occur. 

All changes of address, removals, and deaths of registered em- 
balmers should be reported to this office promptly, so that the sec¬ 
retary may always have the correct address and a proper register 
of all embalmers qualified to practice embalming in this State. 

And in addition to the acts of the General Assembly of Rhode 
Island creating the State Board of Registration in Embalming and 
the registration of births, marriages and deaths we publish the 
rules and regulations with regard to transportation of corpses as 
adopted at the conferences of the General Baggage Agents in Jan- 
uarv, 1911. 

Respectfully, 

JOHN J. McCANNA, Chairman. 

ROBERT C. COTTRELL, 

CHARLES E. BARBER, Secretary. 



Official List of Registered Embalmers of the State 
of Rhode Island, February 1, 1913. 


96.* Armstrong, John F.Providence. 

38.* Armstrong, Myers R.Providence. 

103. Arnold, A. Herbert.Providence. 

31. Avery, George W.Hope Valley. 

30.* Avery, Samuel R.Hope Valley. 

165. Bacon, Oliver.Warren. 

219.* Bailey, Robert P.Providence. 

184. * Ballou, Bertram A.Providence. 

77.* Barber, Charles E.Providence. 

148.* Bates, Orren W.Sterling, Conn. 

32. * Bellows, Dexter W.Pawtucket. 

130.* Bennett, Daniel E.Anthony. 

132. Berrv, James B.Pawtucket. 

123.* Berry, Thomas E.Pawtucket. 

50. Boyce, Henry J.Providence. 

244.* Boyce, James H.Providence. 

183.* Boyce, William P.Providence. 

185. * Bristol, Bernard L.Meredith, N. H. 

256.* Brown, Clark T.Newport, R. I. 

243.* Brown, George E.Central Falls. 

225.* Buffington, Hiram B.Taunton, Mass. 

236.* Burns, Richard M.Central Falls. 

25. Carder, Frederick D.Boston, Mass. 

63.* Carpenter, Arthur W.Providence. 


* Passed a satisfactory examination. 




























BOARD OP REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


3 


28." Carroll, Eugene F.Providence. 

2<. Carroll, Robert F.Providence. 

10. Chase, Clarence O.Providence. 

51. * Cheetham, Charles X.Pawtucket. 

52. Cheetham, George B.. .Central Falls. 

145.* Coffey, Patrick J.Providence. 

229. x Comstock, Eewis H.Providence. 

45. Comstock, Melville H.Providence. 

242.* Cooney, John A.Valley Falls. 

252.* Coppinger, Timothy E.Newport,. 

33.* Corrigan, John J .Harrisville. 

75.* Cottrell, Robert C.Newport. 

7.* Coutanche, John J.Providence. 

GO. Cranston, George C.Wickford. 

81. Day, Elmer HI..Block Island. 

175. De Pasquale, Angelo .Providence. 

100. Di Iorio, John .Providence. 

248.* Dillon, James A.Providence. 

24G.* Donahue, Thomas J.Providence. 

200.* Douty, Albert S.Providence. 

9.* Drabble, Irving H.Providence. 

163.* Duffy, Augustus P.Bristol. 

207.* Duffy, James Joseph.Valley Falls. 

61.* Dunphy, James A.Newport. 

238.* Elastwood, Richard H.Valley Falls. 

83. Edwards, James W.Providence. 

42.* Enos, Joseph M.Providence. 

101. Farrell, Edward F.Providence. 

97. Fenner, Herbert A.Centredale. 

233.* Farrington, Harry B.Franklin, Mass. 

134. Ferrara, Domenico .Providence. 


♦Passed a satisfactory examination. 


































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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


205.* 

126. 

72. 

171. 
37. 
41. 

117. 

181 . 

82. 

140. 
170. 
237.* 
147. 
125.* 
139.* 
203.* 

65. 

69.* 

172. 
84. 

190.* 

254. 

22 .* 

257.* 

79. 

213.* 

231.* 

95.* 

141. 
197.* 

1 . 


Ferrara, Teresa A. 

Finnerty, James. 

Flynn, Daniel J. 

Flynn, J. Joseph. 

Flynn, Thomas F. 

Freeborn, Richard H.. 

Fuller, James R. 

Gaffney, Joseph W.... 

Gattone, Thomas. 

Gavitt, Charles H. 

Gilbert, Alexander ... 
Gilbert, Chester A. ... 
Gorman, Daniel ...... 

Gorman, Harold D. ... 

Gorman, James . 

Gormley, Frank L. 

Gough, James F. 

Gorton, Frank R. 

Goyer, Peter. 

Grandpre, George De. . 

Hagan, Arthur C. 

Humbly, Charles A., Jr 

Handy, Merrill B. 

Hanley, John F. 

Harlow, John F. 

Harlow, John F., Jr. .. 

Harlow, Joseph F. 

Heroux, Lucien . 

Herrick, Richard . 

Hicks, John P>. 

Hill, Charles G. 


Providence. 

Arctic. 

Central Falls. 

Providence. 

Pawtucket. 

Newport. 

Auburn. 

Westerly. 

Providence. 

Westerly. 

Woonsocket. 

Woonsocket. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Arctic. 

Anthony. 

*/ 

Woonsocket. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Tiverton. 

Provi deuce. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Central Falls. 
Woonsocket. 

North Westport, Mass. 
East Greenwich. 


* Passed a satisfactory examination. 


































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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


14. Hill, Frank R.East Greenwich. 

78.* Hoi dredge, Ernon M.Providence. 

189.* Holland, Bernard J.Providence. 

220.* Horton, Frank C..East Providence. 

247.* Houlihan, Dennis F.Newport. 

202.* Hudson, James H. .Providence. 

245.* Ineson, J. William.Wakefield. 

136. Jones, Robert F.Providence. 

151.* Judson, Harry P.Pawtucket. 

116.* Julilin, Alfred .Providence. 

6. Keefe, John E.Providence. 

137. * Kelley, Mary F.North Smithfield. 

192.* Kennedy, Louis E.Danielson, Conn. 

90. Kilgore, Frank .Providence. 

111. King, Patrick H.Providence. 

110. King, Thomas J.Providence. 

138. Knowles, Ellmer F.Providence. 

2. Knowles, Horace E.Providence. 

230.* Lalime, Napoleon .Manville. 

209. Lalor, Frank J.Millville, Mass. 

59. Landy, John J.Providence. 

73. Langley, Frederick E.Newport. 

214.* Lariviere, J. Arthur.Fall River, Mass. 

180. Larochelle, N. J.Woonsocket. 

222.* Larochelle, Wilfrid W.Woonsocket. 

211.* Lauzon, Joseph .Woonsocket. 

99. Lee, Frederick J.Pawtucket. 

80. Lee, Frederick P.Newport. 

74. Levesque, Louis E.Manville. 

153.* Lillibridge, H. Edward.Danielson, Conn. 

241.* Lowe, Frank Marshall.Providence. 


* Passed a satisfactory examination. 


































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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


94.* 

228.* 

29.* 

112 . 

177. 

40. 

13. 

12 .* 

76.* 

128.* 

221 .* 

70. 

71. 
258.* 
164. 
193.* 
160. 
240.* 

55.* 

218.* 

235.* 

17. 
48.* 

3. 

206.* 

212 .* 

223.* 

195.* 

182.* 

133.* 

18. 


Lynch, Maurice . 

Mackenzie, Ira M. 

Manning, Daniel E. 

Manning, John F. 

Mariana, Antonio . 

Marsh, Samuel W. 

Me A loon, Augustine F. . 

McAloon, Vincent J. 

McCanna, John J. 

McCanna, Raymond P... 
McCanna, William L. . .. 

McCarthy, Dennis F. 

McCarthy, John F J. 

McCool, Edward J. 

McDermott, Patrick F. .. 

McGinn, John L. 

McGinn, Sylvester. 

McGrath, Thomas F. ... 

McKay, Robert. 

McKenna, Peter F....... 

McMahon, Patrick T.... 

McMurrough, Frank .... 

Mellor, William G. 

Monahan, Thomas F.... 
Monahan, Thomas F., Jr. 

Montgomery, Fred L. 

Moore, Edward H. 

Mulgrew, William E. 

Mulligan, Henry P. 

Munro, Edward Burnside 
Murphy, Joseph T. 


Providence. 

Auburn. 

Pawtucket. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Newport. 

Pawtucket. 

Pawtucket. 

Woonsocket. 

Woonsocket. 

Woonsocket. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

East Providence. 

Fall River, Mass. 
North Attleboro, Mass. 
North Attleboro, Mass. 
Peace Dale. 

Bristol. 

Providence. 

Arctic. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Wickford. 

Blackstone, Mass. 

Providence. 

Woonsocket. 

Westerly. 

4 / 


* Passed a satisfactory examination. 


































217.* 

115. 

47. 

159. 

49. 

91. 

106. 

196.* 

20 . 

253.* 

8 .* 

64.* 

198.* 

232.* 

86 . 

88 . 

34. 

19.* 

67. 

68 . * 
26. 

5.* 

loo." 

57. 

250.* 

46. 

191.* 

204.* 

66 .* 

98. 

215.* 


BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 7 


Nardolillo, Benedetto 

Negus, C. A. 

Noyes, Asa, Jr. 

O’Neil], Daniel F.... 
O’Neill, Patrick H. . 
O’Neill, William H. . 

Page, Charles H. 

Paradis, L. O. 

Paterson, Luther W. 
Pearson, Thomas E. 
Phillips, Henry S. . . 
Platt, Chester H. ... 

Potter, Harry L. 

Prata, Raffaele. 

Quinn, Thomas. 

Quinn, Thomas J. .. 
Quinn, Timothy S. .. 
Randall, Frank E. .. 

Read, Byron . 

Read, Herman B. ... 

Reid, Edwin L. 

Reilly, James D. 

Remington, Frank E 
Ring, Augustus P. .. 
Robert, George W. .. 
Robert, Thomas .... 
Rodrigues, Manuel . . 

Roy, George A. 

Rov, Norbet. 

Ryan, Charles L. 

Sanderson, Harry F.. 


, Providence. 

Block Island. 

, Westerly. 

, Pawtucket. 

Newport. 

Pawtucket. 

Providence. 

Fall River, Mass. 
Phenix. 

Cranston. 

Pawtucket. 

Providence. 

North Westport, Mass. 
Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Woonsocket. 

Providence. 

Anthony. 

Anthony. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Pawtuxet. 

Providence. 

Arctic. 

Arctic. 

Fall River, Mass. 

Man vi lie. 

Pawtucket. 

Pawtucket. 

Providence. 


* Passed a satisfactory examination. 


































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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


249.* 

24.* 

254. * 

255. * 
226.* 

58. 

85.* 


443. 

239.* 

156.* 

216.* 

92. * 
194.* 
162. 
161. 

93. 
186.* 
104. 

107. 

108. 


23.* 


124. 

120 . 

208.* 

199.* 

44.* 

43. 

39.* 


21 . 


56.* 

142. 


Sandstrom, Oscar F. .. 
Saunders, Frank B.... 

Scott, Earle W. 

Silva, Charles E. 

Silva, Marianne J. 

Skeffington, James F. . 
Slocum, James Horace. 
Smith, William H. ... 
Spaulding', Edgar L. .. 

Sperry, Henry N. 

Stapleton, John F. 

Steere, Varnum . 

Stone, Charles F. 

Sullivan, James E.... 
Sullivan, Michael H... 
Sutton, John Thomas. . 

Sweatman, Rov C. 

Tanner, John F. 

Therien, Arsene . 

Therien, Wilfrid . 

Tiernev, Charles H.... 

Tierney, Frank P. 

Tobin, Michael J. 

Todd. John P. 

Tove, Charles W. 

Trottier, Cleophas A. . 

Trot tier, John B. 

Waehschlager, Hugo E 

Walsh, John H. 

Ward, Joseph E. 

Waring, James H. 


Providence. 

Central Falls. 

East Providence. 
Providence. 

Fall River, Mass. 
Providence. 

Wakefield. 

Warren. 

Woonsocket. 

North Attleboro, Mass. 
Providence. 

Pascoag. 

Attleboro. 

Fall River, Mass. 

Fall River, Mass. 
Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Woonsocket. 

Woonsocket. 

Pawtucket. 

Pawtucket. 

Bristol. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

, Providence. 

, Pawtucket. 

.Fall River, Mass. 


♦Passed a satisfactory examination. 



































BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


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259.* Waterman, Frank S., Jr 

129. Watson, Frank E. 

ITS. Whipple, Andrew B.... 

11.* Whipple, Frank M. 

157. * Whiting, Arthur E. 

158. * Whiting, William L. ... 

3G. Wilbur, Frederick . 

35. Wilbur, George M. 

149.* Williams, George Z. 

122.* Williams, Janies H. 

1G7.* Winward, James E. 

154.* Wood, Albertus F. 

1GS. York, Andrew W. 


Boston, Mass. 
Providence. 

Greenville. 

Pascoag. 

North Attleboro, Mass. 
Providence. 

Bristol. 

Warren. 

Upton, Mass. 

East Providence. 

Fall River, Mass. 
Danielson, Conn. 
Providence. 


♦Passed a satisfactory examination. 



















List of Persons holding Undertakers’ Licenses in ac¬ 
cordance with Chapter 575, Section 8 of the Public 
Laws, Passed at the January session, A. D. 1910. 


11 Andrews, George W., Superintendent, Slatersville Cemetery, 
SI a ter svi lie, R. I. 

2 Brown, John T., Superintendent, Dexter Asylum, Providence, 

R. I. 

7 Dickey, E. Howard, Superintendent, Union Cemetery, North 

Smith-field, R. I. 

5 Dyer, Daniel P., Superintendent, Poc-asset Cemetery, Cran¬ 
ston, R. I. 

10 Esty, Aaron S., Superintendent, Grace Church Cemetery, 
Providence, R. I. 

3 Harrington, James T., Superintendent, Catholic Cemeteries, 

Providence, R. I 

8 Mathewson, Thomas G., Superintendent, Quidnessett Ceme¬ 

tery, North Kingstown, R. I. 

9 Risk, Winthrop A., M. D., Superintendent, State Home and 

School, Providence, R. I. 

1 Warren, Janies, Jr.. Superintendent, North Burial Ground, 
Providence, R. I. 

4 Yorston, Henry P. Superintendent, East Greenwich Ceme¬ 

tery, East Greenwich, R. I. 

13 Cole. Louis C., Superintendent, Town Asylum, Foster, R. 1. 



Sdat? of ISlioir 3alatti)i atifo JPrmriitenr? Plantations. 


STATE BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


Rules and Regulations. 

• Rule 1. All applications for registration must be made to the 
State Board of Registration in Embalming, upon the blank form 
issued by this Board, which must be filled out and signed by the 
applicant, and bear the signature of a reputable person, residing 
in the same city or town as the applicant, certifying that the ap¬ 
plicant is twenty-one years of age, of good moral character, and 
has obtained a common school education. 

The applicant must make affidavit to his signature, and that 
the statements contained in the application are true and in the 
handwriting of the persons whose names are subscribed thereto. 

Rule 2. Section 1. The applicant must have taken a regular 
course of instruction at a reputable school of embalming whose 
course of instruction is satisfactory to this Board; or he must 
a practicing embalmer; or 

Section 2. He must hold a certificate of “a licensed embalmer” 
from the examining board of another State whose examinations 
are satisfactory to this Board; and must have had not less than 
one year’s active work as a practicing embalmer. 

Rule 3. All applications must be accompanied by a fee of five 
dollars, as provided by Chapter 35, Section G, of the General Laws 
of 1909. 




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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


Rule 4. No fee shall be returned when the applicant fails to 
pass, but he or she may appear before this Board for re-examina¬ 
tion upon the payment of a fee of three dollars, as provided by the 
above section of the General Laws. 

Rule 5. Section 1. All applications for examination must be 
filed, together with the fee of five dollars, in the office of the secre¬ 
tary of the State Board of Registration in Embalming, at least 
four days before the date of examination, in order to insure the 
examination of the applicant. 

Section 2. Seventy-five per cent, of answers, in a scale of one 
hundred, shall be required to entitle the applicant to registration. 

Rule G. Examinations for registration shall be held by the 
State Board of Registration in Embalming, at Providence, on the 
second Thursday of January and July of each year; and addi- 
tional meetings may be held at such other time and place as the 
Board may determine. 

Rule 7. Section 1. Every registered embalmer shall secure a 
renewal certificate before the first of January of each succeeding 
year, the fee for which (three dollars) shall be paid not later than 
December 15th of the year designated upon the certificate which 
he holds. Upon receipt of said fee a renewal card bearing the 
name, number, and date of expiration of his registration will be 
issued. 

All registered embalmers must show card of renewal upon re¬ 
quest of boards of health or persons authorized to issue permits. 

Section 2. Any person failing to comply with the preceding 
section shall appear before this Board for re-examination to en¬ 
title him or her to registration as provided by Rule 1. 

Rule 8. No embalming fluid, or any substitute therefor, shall 
be injected into the body of any person supposed to have come to 


BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


13 


death by violence, until a permit in writing, signed by a medical 
examiner, has been obtained. 

Rule 9. Section 1. The State Board of Registration in Em¬ 
balming may refuse to issue or renew certificates provided for in 
this act, to persons who have by false and fraudulent representa¬ 
tion obtained or sought to obtain practice in their profession; or 
who fail to comply with Chapter 121 of the General Laws of the 
State, as amended by Chapter 575 of the Public Laws, as passed 
at the January session, A. D. 1910, or of Chapter 35 of the Gen¬ 
eral Laws of 1909, or who are guilty of any other unprofessional 
or dishonorable conduct, or of any violation of the rules of the 
State or local boards of health. 

Section 2. This Board may revoke such certificates for any of 
such or other like causes: Provided that no certificate shall be re¬ 
voked until the holder lias been given reasonable notice of the 
charge or charges against him, and an opportunity for a full hear¬ 
ing before this Board. 

Rule 10. Boards of health, city or town clerks, or other per¬ 
sons authorized to issue permits, shall have a certified list of em- 
balmers, compiled and furnished by the State Board of Registra¬ 
tion in Embalming. 

Rule 11. The rules and regulations of the State Board of Reg¬ 
istration in Embalming have been adopted under the provisions 
of Chapter 35 of the General Laws of Rhode Island, and it is ex¬ 
pected that no transportation company operating in Rhode Island 
will receive the body of any person deceased until it has been pre¬ 
pared by a registered embalmer holding a certificate issued by the 
State Board of Registration in Embalming. 


Rules of the Rhode Island State Beard of Registration 
in Embalming for the Transportation of the Dead. 


These Rules having been duly adopted, and approved by the State Board 

of Health, have the force of Law. 


Rule 1 . The transportation of bodies dead of smallpox, Asi¬ 
atic cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever or bubonic plague, is abso¬ 
lutely forbidden, except after cremation. 

Rule 2. The bodies of those who have died of diphtheria (mem¬ 
branous croup), scarlet fever (scarlatina, scarlet rash), glanders, 
anthrax or leprosy shall not be accepted for transportation unless 
prepared for shipment by being thoroughly disinfected by (a) ar¬ 
terial and cavity injection with an approved disinfectant fluid, (6) 
disinfecting and stopping of all orifices with absorbent cotton, and 
(c) washing the body with the disinfectant, all of which must be 
done by a registered embalmer, holding a certificate as such. Af¬ 
ter being disinfected as above, such body shall be enveloped in a 
layer of cotton not less than one inch thick, completely wrapped 
in a sheet and bandaged, and encased in an air-tight zinc, tin, cop¬ 
per, or lead-lined coffin, or iron casket, all joints and seams her¬ 
metically soldered, and all enclosed in a strong, tight, wooden box. 
Or the body, being prepared for shipment by disinfecting and 
wrapping as above, may be placed in a strong coffin or casket, and 
said coffin or casket encased in an air-tight zinc, copper, or tin 
case, all joints and seams hermetically soldered, and all enclosed 
in a strong outside wooden box. 

Rule 3. Bodies dead of typhoid fever, phthisis, puerperal fever, 
erysipelas, tuberculosis, and measles, or other dangerous communi¬ 
cable diseases other than those specified in Rules 1 and 2, may be 




BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


15 


received for transportation when prepared for shipment by filling 
cavities with an approved disinfectant, washing the exterior of the 
body with the same, stopping all orifices with absorbent cotton, 
and enveloping the entire bod} r with a layer of cotton not less than 
one inch thick, and all wrapped in a sheet and bandaged, and en¬ 
cased in an air-tight coffin or casket: Provided, that this shall 
apply only to bodies which can reach their destination within 
forty-eight hours from time of death. In all other cases such 
bodies shall be prepared for transportation in conformity with 
Rule 2. But when the body has been prepared for shipment by 
being thoroughly disinfected and arterially and cavity embalmed 
by a registered embalmer, the air-tight sealing and bandaging with 
cotton may be dispensed with. 

Rule 1. Bodies dead of diseases that are not contagious, in¬ 
fectious, or communicable may be received for transportation 
when encased in a sound coffin or casket and box, or enclosed in a 
strong outside wooden box: Provided, they reach their destina¬ 
tion Avithin forty-eight hours from the time of death. If the body 
cannot reach its destination within forty-eight hours from time of 
death, it must be prepared for shipment by filling cavities with an 
approved disinfectant, washing the exterior of the body Avith the 
same, stopping all orifices with absorbent cotton, and enveloping 
the entire body with a layer of cotton not less than one inch thick, 
and all wrapped in a sheet and bandaged, and encased in an air¬ 
tight coffin or casket. But when the body has been prepared for 
shipment by being thoroughly disinfected and arterially and cav¬ 
ity embalmed by a registered embalmer, the air-tight sealing and 
the bandaging with cotton may be dispensed with. 

Rule 5. In cases of contagious, infectious, or communicable 
diseases, the body must not be accompanied by persons or articles 
which haA’e been exposed to the infection of the disease, unless cer¬ 
tified by the health officers as having been properly disinfected; 


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BOARD OF REGISTR.VriON IN EMBALMING. 


and before selling passage tickets, agents shall carefully examine 
the transit permit and note the name of the passenger in charge 
and of any others proposing to accompany the body, and see that 
all necessary precautions have been taken to prevent the spread of 
the disease. The transit permit shall specifically slate who is au¬ 
thorized to accompany the remains. 

Rule 6. Every dead body must be accompanied by a person in 
charge, who must be provided with a passage ticket and also pre¬ 
sent a full first-class ticket marked “Corpse,” for the transporta¬ 
tion of the body, and a transit permit with undertaker’s certifi¬ 
cate, name of deceased, date of death; age, place of death, cause of 
death, and if of a contagious, infectious, or communicable nature, 
the point to which the body is to be shipped; and when death is 
caused by any of the diseases specified in Rules 1 and 2, the name 
of the person or persons authorized to accompany the body. The 
undertaker’s certificate and paster shall be detached from the 
transit permit and pasted on the coffin box. The transit permit 
shall be handed to the passenger in charge of the corpse. The 
first coupon shall be detached by the official in charge of the bag¬ 
gage department of the initial line. 

Rule 7. Every disinterred body, dead from any disease or 
cause, shall be treated as infectious, or dangerous to the public 
health, and shall not be accepted for transportation unless said re¬ 
moval has been approved bv the Board of Health, and all such dis¬ 
interred remains shall be enclosed in a hermetically sealed (sol¬ 
dered) zinc, tin, or copper-lined coffin or box. Bodies deposited 
in receiving vaults will be treated and considered the same as 
buried bodies. 

Rule 8. The bodies of all persons who die in Rhode Island 
that are to be shipped by public conveyance even though the initial 
point of such shipment be a railway station outside the State, 
must be prepared and forwarded in accordance with the regula¬ 
tions in force in the State of Rhode Island. 


NEW RULES. 


At a recent conference of Passenger Traffic Officials and General 
Baggage Agents of all the different Passenger Traffic Associations 
throughout the United States and Canada the following fundamental 
rules were adopted : 

Rules and Regulations with Regard to Transportation of 

Corpses. 

(a) A corpse will be accepted for transportation only on pre¬ 
sentation of legal form of transit permit, properly filled out and 
signed, showing that the body has been prepared for shipment in 
accordance with law. Such permit must be securely fastened on 
top or end of burial box. 

(b) A corpse will be transported in baggage service only when 
accompanied (on same train) by an adult escort. 

(c) A check will be issued to cover the transportation of a 
corpse, except that corpse checks will not be issued between points 
where wagon transfer is involved, except as noted in paragraph 
(e). The charge for the transportation of a corpse, not exceed¬ 
ing five hundred (500) pounds in weight, including casket and 
box, see paragraph (h) will be published first-class passenger 
fare, limited or unlimited, and the check will be issued only to 
the escort in charge, who will be required to present a ticket to 
cover his, or her own passage, endorsed “Corpse Escort” on con¬ 
tract and each coupon. Ticket Agents must also note in ink im¬ 
mediately under the endorsement the number of the corpse check. 



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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


(d) The minimum charge for the transportation of a corpse 
will be one dollar ($1.00). 

(e) The escort will be required to make all arrangements for 
tire transfer at the points where wagon transfer is involved and 
to recheck therefrom except that at Chicago, Ill., the Parmelee 
Transfer Co. will transfer a corpse the same as baggage under 
check, and corpse checks may therefore be issued via Chicago re¬ 
gardless of wagon transfer at that point, unless other arrange¬ 
ments are desired by the escort. 

(f) The return portion of an adult passenger’s ticket orig¬ 
inally issued to the deceased, will be accepted in exchange for a 
corpse check via same route to destination of the ticket surren¬ 
dered, subject 1o weight as shown in paragraph (h) of this rule. 

(g) The return portion of a half-fare ticket, originally issued 
for the transportation of a child, when surrendered together with 
cash to cover the half-fare to destination and via route of the 
original ticket, will be accepted in payment of the transportation 
of the corpse subject to weight as shown in paragraph (h) of 
this rule, and a corpse check issued therefor. 

(h) When a corpse in casket and box, weighing more than 
five hundred (500) pounds, is presented for transportation in bag¬ 
gage service, there will be an additional charge at regular excess 
baggage rates for the weight in excess of five hundred (500) 
pounds, and the amount thus collected will be shown on the check 
issued. 

(i) Each corpse box must be plainly marked, showing name 
of deceased, route, destination and to whom consigned, and should 
be provided with not less than six (6) handles; two on each side, 
and one on each end. 


BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


19 


(j) Baggage of dece)ased may be checked to accompany a 
corpse, in accordance with the rules governing the transportation 
of a passenger’s baggage. 

(k) A corpse will not be accepted or transported, if in an of¬ 
fensive condition, or if fluids are escaping from the case, notwith¬ 
standing the presentation of permits or certificates. 

(l) Corpses, destined to points in the Provinces of New Bruns¬ 
wick (Canada), or to pass through that province en route to des¬ 
tination, must be enclosed in hermetically sealed leaden or metal¬ 
lic caskets or cases, regardless of the cause of death. 

(m) Corpses destined to points east of St. John, N. B., will 
be checked to St. John, N. B., only. Escorts must arrange there 
for transportation beyond. 


^talp nf 2U|a&e Slahuti anil JlromDntr? ^Plantations. 


JANUARY SESSION, A. D. 1908. 


CHAPTER 1575. 

AN ACT TO CREATE A STATE BOARD OF REGISTRATION 
IN EMBALMING, AND TO REGULATE THE BUSINESS 
OF EMBALMING. 


[Passed May 19, 1908.] 

It is enacted hy the General Assembly as follows: 

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the 
embalming of dead human bodies in this state unless he shall have 
first obtained a certificate of registration as provided in this act. 
Any person who shall have received, as hereinafter provided in 
this act, a certificate of his qualifications to practice as an em¬ 
balmer, shall be deemed and known as a registered embalmer un¬ 
der the provisions of this act; and no person, unless he has re¬ 
ceived a certificate under the provisions of this act, shall advertise 
or in any manner use such name of registered embalmer, or any 
other words or letters, or any intimation thereof tending to indi¬ 
cate that the person so advertising or using the same is such regis¬ 
tered embalmer. 

Sec. 2. A board of examiners, to be known as the state board of 
registration in embalming, is hereby created to carry out the pur¬ 
poses and enforce the provisions of this act. The members of said 
board, when appointed, shall be citizens of this state, and shall 
have at least five years’ practical experience in the embalming of 
dead human bodies and been actively engaged therein on their 




BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


21 


own account in this state. At the present session of the general 
assembly the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, 
shall appoint one member of said board to hold office until the 
first day of February, A. I). 1909; one member of said board to 
hold office until the first day of February, A. D. 1910; and one 
member of said board to hold office until the first day of Febru¬ 
ary, A. D. 1911. At the January session of the general assembly, 
A. D. 1909, and at the January session of the general assembly in 
every year thereafter, the governor, with the advice and consent of 
the senate, shall appoint one member of said board to hold office 
until the first day of February in the third year after his ap¬ 
pointment, to succeed the member of such board whose term will 
next expire: Provided, that any vacancy which may occur in said 
board when the general assembly is not in session shall be filled 
by the governor until the next session thereof, when he shall, with 
the advice and consent of the senate, appoint some person to fill 
such vacancy for the remainder of the term. Each member of 
said board shall hold office until his successor is appointed and 
qualified. Any member of said board may be removed by the gov¬ 
ernor, with the advice and consent of the senate, for such cause as 
he and the senate shall deem sufficient, and shall express in the 
order of removal. Each member of said board shall give a bond in 
the sum of one thousand dollars, with surety or sureties to be ap¬ 
proved by the general treasurer, conditioned for the faithful per¬ 
formance of his duties, and shall take the oath provided by law 
for public officers. 

Sec. 3. Said state board of registration in embalming shall 
organize as soon as may be after their appointment and qualifica¬ 
tion by electing one of their members chairman and one of their 
members secretary, and one of their members treasurer, and such 
organization shall continue until the appointment of any new 
member of said board of registration, except in case of any va¬ 
cancy in any office, in which case such vacancy may be filled forth- 


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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


with: Provided, that the office of secretary and treasurer may be 
filled by the same member. The secretary of said board shall keep 
a record of all its proceedings, issue all notices and certificates, 
and attest all such papers and orders as said board shall direct; 
and the secretary shall perform such other duties as shall be des¬ 
ignated by said board. Said board shall hold two regular meet¬ 
ings in each year, one on the first Tuesday of May, one on the first 
Monday of November, and such additional meetings at such times 
and places as they may determine. 

Sec. 4. Said board shall have power to adopt rules and regula¬ 
tions for conducting examinations to be held under this act. Said 
examinations shall be held at least once a year in the city of Provi¬ 
dence and elsewhere in the discretion of said board. Such exam¬ 
inations shall be held upon the theory and practice of embalming, 
and such other relevant subjects as said board may determine. 
Such board shall issue to each applicant passing a satisfactory ex¬ 
amination a certificate, signed by the chairman and secretary of 
said board, entitling such person to practice in this state as a 
registered embaliner for the annual period stated in such license, 
or until such certificate shall be revoked as hereinafter provided 
in this act. Said board shall fix the time when all said licenses 
shall expire. Said board shall keep a register in which shall be 
entered the names of all the persons to whom certificates are is¬ 
sued under this act, and said register shall be open at all times to 
public inspection at the office of the secretary of said board. 

Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the board, immediately upon its 
organization, to notify all persons engaged in the embalming of 
dead human bodies in this state of the provisions of this act; and 
such persons so notified who have been engaged in the embalming 
of dead human bodies as aforesaid prior to the passage of this 
act shall, upon their application and the payment of a fee of five 
dollars to said board, be registered as embalmers, and shall re- 


BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


23 


ceive a certificate thereof to the time fixed bv said board for the 

«/ 

expiration of said licenses. 

Sec. G. Said board shall charge for the examination and certifi¬ 
cate provided for in this act a fee of five dollars, payable by said 
applicant at the time of filing his application. In case of the fail¬ 
ure on the part of any applicant to attend the examination at the 
date specified by said board, on sufficient excuse said applicant 
may, at the discretion of said board, appear and be examined at 
any subsequent meeting of said board, without charge, and in case 
of failure to pass a satisfactory examination any applicants may, 
in the discretion of said board, have a re-examination upon the 
payment of the further sum of three dollars. Every registered 
embalmer shall, after his registration, on such date as said board 
may determine, pay to the secretary of said board an annual fee 
of three dollars for the renewal of his registration. 

Sec. 7. The actual expenses of said board shall be paid out of 
the funds received from applicants for examinations: Provided, 
that in no event shall such expenses be a charge against the state. 
After all necessary expenses of said board have been paid by the 
treasurer thereof out of the moneys received by it from said fees, 
including a salary of one hundred dollars a year to each of the 
members of said board, if there be funds for that purpose, the 
balance of the moneys received by it from said fees under this act 
shall be paid to the general treasurer. No moneys shall be ap¬ 
plied to the payment of the expenses of said board or of said sal¬ 
aries, except that received from said fees as aforesaid. 

Sec. 8. Said board shall present annually to the general assem¬ 
bly, in the month of January, a detailed statement of the receipts 
and disbursements of said board during the preceding year, with 
a statement of its acts and proceedings and such recommenda¬ 
tions as said board may deem proper. 


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BOARD OP REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


Sec. 9. Said board shall have power to revoke any certificate of 
registration, granted by it under this act, for gross incompetency, 
for unprofessional conduct, or for other cause sufficient in the 
judgment of said board: Provided, that before any certificate 
shall be so revoked, the holder thereof shall have notice in writing 
of the charge or charges against him, and shall have reasonable 
opportunity to be heard in his defence. Any person whose cer¬ 
tificate has been so revoked may apply to have the same reissued, 
and the same shall be reissued to him upon a satisfactory showing 
that such disqualification has ceased. Said board shall have 
power by its chairman to summon any person to appear as a wit¬ 
ness and testify at airy hearing by said board under the provi¬ 
sions of this act, and to examine and to administer oaths to such 
witnesses. Any person aggrieved by any decision or ruling of 
said board may, within thirty days, exclusive of Sundays and holi¬ 
days, after receiving notice of said decision, appeal therefrom to 
the superior court sitting at Providence, by filing therein his rea¬ 
sons of appeal, and said superior court shall, as soon as may be 
after such notice to said board as shall be directed bv the court, 
hear and determine said appeal, following the course of equity, 
and subject to all the rights of parties in such causes. 

Sec. 10. Nothing in this act shall prohibit any person from 
serving as an apprentice under the personal supervision of a regis¬ 
tered embalmer: Provided, such apprentice shall first file with 
the secretary of said board a statement in writing, showing the 
name and place of business of his employer, and the date of the 
beginning of such employment, and the full name, age, and resi¬ 
dence of such apprentice. No such apprentice shall be author¬ 
ized to advertise or hold himself out to the public as a registered 
embalmer. Any person duly qualified and complying with the 
provisions of this act may be licensed as a registered embalmer, 
although not in business on his own account. 


BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


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Sec. 11. Whoever, not being registered as aforesaid, or whose 
license shall have expired or have been revoked as aforesaid, shall 
by himself, or agent or servant, unless such agent or servant is so 
registered, engage in the business of the embalming of dead hu¬ 
man bodies, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hun¬ 
dred dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two 
months, or by both, in the discretion of the court. 

Sec. 12. This act shall take effect upon its passage for the ap¬ 
pointment of commissioners, the examinations of applicants, and 
the conduct of the business of said board. For all other purposes 
this act shall take effect upon June 1, A. D. 1908. 

A true copy, 


Attest: 


CHARLES P. BENNETT, 


Secretary of State. 


g>tate of Sljoiif Sfalani anil Pruu timin' Plantations. 


EXTRACTS FROM CHAPTER 121 OF THE GENERAL LAWS, 
AS AMENDED BY CHAPTER 575 OF THE PUBLIC 
LAWS, PASSED AT THE JANUARY SESSION, A. D. 
1910, ENTITLED “OF THE REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, 
DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES,” AND AS AMENDED AT 
THE JANUARY SESSION, A. D. 1911. 

Section 3. The record of deaths shall state the date of death, 
name and surname of deceased, the sex, color, and condition, 
whether single or married, age, occupation, place of death, place 
of birth, names and birthplace of parents, disease or cause of 
death, the name and relation to the deceased of the person fur¬ 
nishing such information, place of burial and the time of record¬ 
ing, so far as can be ascertained: Provided however, that still¬ 
births shall be recorded both as births and deaths, but separately 
from the records of both births or deaths. 

Sec. 7. Whenever any person shall die, or any still-born child 
be brought forth, in this state, the undertaker or embaliner who 
has charge of the body shall obtain and return to the town clerk 
or registrar a certificate of death, prepared in accordance with 
section 3 of this chapter, and upon a blank to be furnished by the 
secretary of the state board of health. The statement of facts re¬ 
lating to the disposition of the body shall be signed by the under¬ 
taker or person acting as such. 

The medical certificate shall be made and signed by the phy¬ 
sician, if any, last in attendance on the deceased. But whenever 
the body of a person is lying dead in any town or city, who has 



BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


21 


been unattended, in his or her last sickness, by a physician regis¬ 
tered to practice in this state, the town or city clerk, or in the city 
of Providence the city registrar, shall call upon a registered phy¬ 
sician, or the medical examiner of the district in which the re¬ 
mains are lying, to inquire into and to certify as to the cause and 
manner of death, and shall allow to said physician or medical ex¬ 
aminer the fee of two dollars, which shall be paid out of the town 
or city treasury of said town or city upon the order of said town 
or city clerk or registrar: And provided , however , that whenever 
the medical examiner is called and finds upon inquiry that the 
cause is within the provisions of Chapter 356 of the General Laws, 
his services shall be rendered and fees paid in accordance with the 
provisions of said chapter 35G. Whoever shall sign the medical 
certificate of death shall state the cause of death so as to show the 
course of disease or sequence of causes resulting in the death, giv¬ 
ing the primary cause, and also the contributory causes, if any, 
and the duration of each. Indefinite and unsatisfactory state- 
ments shall not be held sufficient for issuing a burial or removal 
permit; and any certificate which contains only indefinite state¬ 
ments, or statements unsatisfactory to the secretary of the state 
board of health, shall be returned to the physician for correction 
and definition. Causes of death which may be the result of either 
disease or violence shall be carefully defined; and, if from vio¬ 
lence, its nature shall be stated, and whether probably accidental, 
suicidal, or homicidal. Every certificate shall be written legibly 
in unfading black ink or with a black record typewriter ribbon. 

Sec. 8 . Any person registered as an embalmer by the state 
board of registration in embalming shall be an undertaker, and 
may act as such in any town or city in the state. And the super¬ 
intendent of any state or town asylum, hospital or similar institu¬ 
tion, or any cemetery corporation, may act as undertaker, if he 
shall first register his name with the state board of registration in 


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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


embalming. No fee shall be charged any such superintendent for 
such registration. No person shall act as undertaker or shall 
bury, deposit in a yault or tomb, cremate, or otherwise dispose of, 
or remove from any town or city in the state, the dead body of any 
person or of any still-born child, except he be a registered ern- 
balmer or undertaker registered as herein provided. 

“Sec. 9. No person shall bury, deposit in a vault or tomb, cre¬ 
mate or otherwise dispose of, or remove from any town or city in 
the state, the dead body of any person or of any still-born child, 
until a permit for burial or removal, or other disposition, shall 
have been properly issued by the town clerk or registrar of the 
town or city in which the death occurred: Provided, that when a 
death occurs in the state institutions in the city of Cranston, or 
in the state sanatorium in the town of Burrillville, the superin¬ 
tendent or the person in charge thereof shall issue a burial or re¬ 
moval permit. Said superintendent or person in charge shall as 
soon as possible mail the certificate of death to the town or city 
clerk or registrar of the town or city where said death occurred. 
Said superintendent or person in charge shall charge a fee of 
twenty-five cents for each burial or removal permit he issues, 
which fee shall be paid by the undertaker who signs the certificate 
of death. No burial or removal permit shall be issued by said 
town clerk or registrar or other persons appointed as aforesaid 
until a certificate of death has been filed with him as provided in 
section seven of this chapter: and provided, that when a dead 
body is transported into this state for burial, and said death oc¬ 
curred outside of the state, then the transit or removal permit is¬ 
sued in accordance with the law and health regulations of the 
place where the death occurred shall be accepted by the sexton 
or person in charge at the place of burial as a burial permit.” 

“Sec. 10. No sexton or person in charge of any premises in 
which interments, or entombments, or other disposition of dead 


BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


29 


bodies are made, shall inter or permit the interment, entombment, 
or other disposition of any such body unless it is accompanied by 
a burial permit to the place of interment, entombment or other 
disposition as herein provided. Each sexton or person in charge 
of any burial ground, tomb, or other place where disposition is 
made of dead bodies shall indorse upon the burial permit the date 
and location of such interment, entombment or other disposition, 
and shall return all burial permits so indorsed to the town or city 
clerk or registrar of the town or city in which such interment, en¬ 
tombment, or other disposition is made, on or before the fifth day 
of the month next succeeding, and said sexton or person in charge 
aforesaid shall keep a record of all such interments, entombments, 
or other disposition of dead bodies made in or on the premises 
under his charge, stating the name of the deceased person, place 
of death, date of burial and specific location or disposition of the 
remains, and the name and address of the undertaker which rec¬ 
ord shall at all times be open to public inspection. 

“Sec. 12. The town clerks or persons appointed as aforesaid 
shall receive for each record of a death made and returned as re¬ 
quired by law, and for each record of a marriage made and re¬ 
turned as required by law, twenty cents, and for each burial per¬ 
mit issued as required by law twenty-five cents to be paid to them 
out of their respective town treasuries: Provided, that the yearly 
compensation to be paid out of the town treasury as aforesaid, to 
any one town clerk or person appointed as aforesaid who shall 
perform the duties prescribed by this chapter, shall not be less 
than ten dollars. Undertakers and others making returns of 
deaths as required by sections seven and nine of this chapter shall 
receive twenty-five cents for each return thus made, to be paid out 
of the town or city treasury of the town or city where the death 
occurred. For making a certified copy of any record of a birth, 
marriage or death, the town clerk or registrar shall be entitled to 


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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


a fee of fifty cents from the applicant therefor. For making and 
transmitting the copies of records as required by section twenty 
of this chapter, the town clerks or registrars shall receive for each 
copy of a record of a birth, marriage or death, made and trans¬ 
mitted as prescribed, the sum of twenty cents, to be paid to them 
out of their respective town or city treasuries.” 

Sec. 13. Every clergyman, physician, midwife, undertaker, 
town clerk, clerk of any meeting of the Society of Friends or 
other person, who shall wilfully or unreasonably neglect or refuse 
to perform any of the duties imposed on or required of him by this 
chapter, shall be fined not exceeding twenty dollars nor less than 
two dollars for each offence, one-half thereof to the use of the 
town in which the offence shall occur and one-half thereof to the 
use of the person who shall complain of the same. 

Sec. 14. Every clergyman, physician, coroner, undertaker, 
medical-examiner, or clerk of any meeting of the Society of 
Friends, shall cause his name, residence and post-office address to 
be recorded in the town clerk’s office of the town where he resides. 


















































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RULES AND REGULATIONS 


OF THE 

Stole Board of Registration in Emtalming, 

LIST OF REGISTERED EMBALMERS 

AND 

Rules for Transportation of the Dead. 

1914. 


























*f». *r r». 

MAR 26 1314 



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To the Registered Embalmer. 


The Board of Registration in Embalming herewith presents 
you with a list giving the name and registered number of all em- 
balmers who have complied with the law and are legally entitled 
to practice in this State. All persons practicing embalming other 
than those named in this official list, and having the official card 
issued by this Board, are doing so in violation of the law, and 
will be prosecuted upon complaint being made and proper infor¬ 
mation being furnished to this Board. 

Renewal fees are due in advance, and should be paid to the 
secretary not later than December 15th of each year, thereby 
avoiding any mistakes or misunderstandings that are liable to 
occur. 

All changes of address, removals, and deaths of registered em- 
balmers should be reported to this office promptly, so that the sec¬ 
retary may always have the correct address and a proper register 
of all embalmers qualified to practice embalming in this State. 

And in addition to the acts of the General Assembly of Rhode 
Island creating the State Board of Registration in Embalming and 
the registration of births, marriages and deaths we publish the 
rules and regulations with regard to transportation of corpses as 
adopted at the conferences of the General Baggage Agents in Jan- 
uarv, 1911. 

4 / 7 

Respectfully, 

JOHN J. McOANNA, Chairman, 

ROBERT C. COTTRELL, 

CHARLES E. BARBER, Secretary. 



Official List of Registered Embalmers of the State 
of Rhode Island, February 1, 1914. 


96.* Armstrong, John F.Providence. 

38.* Armstrong, Myers R.Providence. 

103. Arnold, A. Herbert.Providence. 

31. Avery, George W.Hope Valley. 

30.* Avery, Samuel R.Hope Valley. 

165. Bacon, Oliver.Warren. 

219.* Bailey, Riobert P.Providence. 

184. * Ballou, Bertram A.Providence. 

77.* Barber, Charles E.Providence. 

148.* Bates, Orren W.Sterling, Conn. 

32. * Bellows, Dexter W.Pawtucket. 

130.* Bennett, Daniel E.Anthony. 

132. Berrv, James B.Pawtucket. 

123.* Berrv, Thomas E.Pawtucket. 

50. Bovce, Henrv J.Providence. 

244.* Boyce, James H.Providence. 

183.* Boyce, William P.Providence. 

185. * Bristol, Bernard L.Meredith, N. H. 

256.* Brown, Clark T.Newport, R. I. 

243.* Brown, George E.Central Falls. 

266.* Brown, Irving E.Brockton, Mass. 

225.* Buffington, Hiram B.Taunton, Mass. 

269.* Burlingame, Carl Ray.Valley Falls. 

236.* Burns, Richard M.Central Falls. 


* Passed a satisfactory examination. 




























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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


25. Carder, Frederick D.Boston, Mass. 

2< <. Carolan, James A.Providence. 

63.* Carpenter, Arthur W.Providence. 

28.* Carroll, Eugene F.Providence. 

27. Carroll, Robert F.Providence. 

10. Chase, Clarence O.Providence. 

51. * Cheetham, Charles X.Pawtucket. 

52. Cheetham, George B.Central Falls. 

145.* Coffey, Patrick J.Providence. 

229.* Comstock, Lewis H.Providence. 

45. Comstock, Melville H.Providence. 

242.* Cooney, John A.Valley Falls. 

252.* Coppinger, Timothy E.Newport. 

33.* Corrigan, John J .Harrisville. 

262." Cote, Elzear C.Fall River, Mass. 

75.* Cottrell, Robert C.Newport. 

7.* Coutanche, John J.Providence. 

60. Cranston, George C...Wickford. 

267. w Crofton, James V.Providence. 

81. Day, Elmer H].Block Island. 

175. De Pasquale, Angelo .Providence. 

274.* DiGrado, John A.Providence. 

100. Di Iorio, John .Providence. 

248.* Dillon, James A.Providence. 

246.* Donahue, Thomas J.Providence. 

200.* Douty, Albert S .Whitman, Mass. 

9.* Drabble, Irving H..Providence. 

163.* Duffy, Augustus P.Bristol. 

207.* Duffy, James Joseph.Valley Falls. 

61. * Dunphy, James A.Newport. 

260.* Dunphy, Raphael J.Newport. 


♦Passed a satisfactory examination. 


































4 BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


238.* 

83. 

278.* 

42.* 

101 . 

97. 

134. 

205.* 

126. 

72. 


171. 
37. 

270.* 

41. 

117. 

181. 

82. 

140. 

170. 

237.* 

147. 

125.* 

139.* 

203.* 

69.* 

65. 

172. 
84. 

190.* 

254.* 

22 ,* 


Eastwood, Richard H.... 

Edwards, James W. 

Ernes, C. A. 

Enos, Joseph M. 

Farrell, Edward F. 

Fenner, Herbert A. 

Ferrara, Domenico . 

Ferrara, Teresa A. 

Finnertv, James. 

Flynn, Daniel J. 

Flynn, J. Joseph. 

Flynn, Thomas F. 

Franklin, William Wallace 

Freeborn, Richard H. 

Fuller, James R. 

Gaffney, Joseph W. 

Gattone, Thomas. 

Gavitt, Charles H. 

Gilbert, Alexander . 

Gilbert, Chester A. 

Gorman, Daniel . 

Gorman, Harold D. 

Gorman, James . 

Gormley, Frank L. 

Gorton, Frank R. 

Gough, James F. 

Goyer, Peter . 

Grandpre, George De. 

Hagan, Arthur C. 

Hambly, Charles A., Jr.... 
Handy, Merrill B. 


.Valley Falls. 

. Providence. 

. Lexington, Mass. 
. Providence. 

. Providence. 

. Centredale. 

. Providence. 

. Providence. 

. Arctic. 

.Central Falls. 

. Providence. 

. Pawtucket. 

. Bristol. 

. Newport. 

. Auburn. 

. Westerly. 
.Providence. 

. Westerly. 

. Woonsocket. 

. Woonsocket. 

. Providence. 

. Natick. 

. Providence. 

. Providence. 

. Antlionv. 

t/ 

. Arctic. 

. Woonsocket. 

. Providence. 

. Providence. 

.Tiverton. 

.Providence. 


•Passed a satisfactory examination. 



































5 


BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


257.* Hanley, John F.Providence. 

79. Harlow, John F.Providence. 

213.* Harlow, John F., Jr.Providence. 

231.* Harlow, Joseph F.Providence. 

95.* Heroux, Lucien .Central Falls. 

141. Herrick, Richard .Woonsocket. 

1. Hill, Charles G.East Greenwich. 

14. Hill, Frank R.East Greenwich. 

202. w Hodson, James H.Providence. 

271.* Holdredge, Bertram L.Providence. 

7S.* Holdredge, Enron M.Providence. 

189.* Holland, Bernard J.Providence. 

247.* Houlihan, Dennis F. .Newport. 

245.* Ineson, J. William.Wakefield. 

136. Jones. Robert F.Providence. 

151.* Judson, Harry P.Pawtucket. 

116.* Juhlin, Alfred .Providence. 

6. Iveefe, John E.Providence. 

268.* Kelley, Joseph E.Blackstone, Mass. 

137. * Kellev, Marv F.North Smithfield. 

192.* Kennedy, Louis E.Danielson, Conn. 

90. Kilgore, Frank .Providence. 

111. King, Patrick H.Providence. 

110. King, Thomas J.Providence. 

138. Knowles, Ellmer F.Providence. 

2. Knowles, Horace E.Providence. 

230.* Lalime, Napoleon .Manville. 

209.* Lalor, Frank J.Millville, Mass. 

264.* Lancellotta, George.Natick. 

59. Landy, John J.Providence. 

214.* Lariviere, J. Arthur.Fall River, Mass. 


* Passed a satisfactory examination. 


































6 BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


180. 

999 * 


211 .* 

99. 

80 . 


74 . 

153.* 

241.* 

94.* 

228.* 

29.* 


112 . 


177. 

40. 

13. 

12.* 

76.* 

221 .* 

70. 

71. 
258.* 
164. 
193.* 
160. 

55.* 

218.* 


235.* 

17. 

48.* 

3. 

206.* 


Larochelle, N. J. 

Larochelle, Wilfrid W... 

Lauzon, Joseph . 

Lee, Frederick J. 

Lee, Frederick P. 

Levesque, Louis E. 

Lillibridge, II. Edward. 
Lowe, Frank Marshall.. 

Lynch, Maurice . 

Mackenzie, Ira M. 

Manning, Daniel E. 

Manning, John F. 

Mariani, Antonio. 

Marsh, Samuel W. 

McAloon, Augustine F. 
McAloon, Vincent J . ... 

McOanna, John J. 

McCanna, William L. .. 
McCarthy, Dennis F.... 
McCarthy, John F. J. ... 

Me Cool, Edward J. 

McDermott, Patrick F. . 

McGinn, John L. 

McGinn, Sylvester. 

McKay, Robert. 

McKenna, Peter F. 

McMahon, Patrick T. .. 
McMurrough, Frank ... 

Mellor, William G. 

Monahan, Thomas F... 
Monahan, Thomas F., Jr 


Woonsocket. 

Woonsocket. 

Woonsocket. 

Pawtucket. 

Newport. 

Woonsocket. 

Danielson, Conn. 
Providence. 

Providence. 

Auburn. 

Pawtucket. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Newport. 

Pawtucket. 

Pawtucket. 

Woonsocket. 

Woonsocket. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

East Providence. 

Fall River, Mass. 
North Attleboro, Mass. 
North Attleboro, Mass. 
Bristol. 

Providence. 

Arctic. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 


* Passed a satisfactory examination. 


































BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


7 


212 .* 
003 * 

195. * 
182.* 
133.* 

18. 

217.* 

115. 

275.* 

47. 

159. 

49. 

91. 

106. 

196. * 
20 . 

253.* 

O * 

O. 

64.* 

198.* 

030 * 

86 . 

88 . 

34. 

19.* 

67. 

68 . * 


26. 

272.* 

5.* 

155.* 


Montgomery, Fred L. 

Moore, Edward H. 

Mulgrew, William E. 

Mulligan, Henry P. 

Munro, Edward Burnside 

Murphy, Joseph T. 

Nardolillo, Benedetto ... 

Negus, C. A. 

Northrop, Theodore M. .. 

Noyes, Asa, Jr. 

O’Neill, Daniel F. 

O’Neill, Patrick H. 

O’Neill, William H. 

Page, Charles H. 

Paradis, L. O. 

Paterson, Luther W. 

Pearson, Thomas E. 

Phillips, Henry S. 

Platt, Chester H. 

Potter, Harry L. 

Prata, Raffaele. 

Quinn, Thomas. 

Quinn, Thomas J. 

Quinn, Timothy S. 

Randall, Frank E. 

Read, Bvron . 

Read, Herman B. 

Reid, Edwin L. 

Reilly, George J. 

Reilly, James D. 

Remington, Frank E. 


.Providence. 

.Wickford. 

Blackstone, Mass. 

, Providence. 
AVoonsocket. 

Westerly. 

Providence. 

Block Island. 
Wickford. 

Westerly. 

Pawtucket. 

Newport. 

Pawtucket. 

Providence. 

Fall River, Mass. 
Phenix. 

Cranston. 

Pawtucket. 

Providence. 

North Westport, Mass. 
Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Woonsocket. 

Providence. 

Anthony. 

Anthony. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Pawtuxet. 


* Passed a satisfactory examination. 


































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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


57. 

250. * 
40. 

191.* 

204.* 

66 .* 

215. * 
249.* 

24.* 

251. * 
255.* 
226.* 

58. 
85.* 

113. 

239.* 

156.* 

216. * 

92. * 
194.* 
275.* 
162. 
161. 

93. 
104. 

107. 
261.* 

108. 
23.* 

124. 

120 . 


Ring, Augustus P.... 
Robert, George W. ... 

Robert, Thomas . 

Rodrigues, Mauuel . .. 

Roy, George A. 

Roy, Norbet. 

Sanderson, Harry F.. 
Sandstrom, Oscar F.. 
Saunders, Frank B... 

Scott, Earle W. 

Silva, Charles E. 

Silva, Marianno J.... 
Skeffington, James F. 
Slocum, James Horace 
Smith, William H... 
Spaulding, Edgar L.. 

Sperry, Henry N. 

Stapleton, John F.... 

Steere, Varnum . 

Stone, Charles F. 

Stone, Israel B. 

Sullivan, James E... 
Sullivan, Michael H. . 
Sutton, John Thomas. 

Tanner, John F. 

Therien, Arsene . 

Therien, Arthur R... 
Therien, Wilfrid 
Tiernev, Charles H. .. 
Tierney, Frank P.... 
Tobin, Michael J. 


Providence. 

Arctic. 

Arctic. 

Fall River, Mass. 

Man vi lie. 

Pawtucket. 

Providence. 

Providence. 

Central Falls. 

East Providence. 

Providence. 

Fall River, Mass. 

Providence. 

Wakefield. 

Warren. 

Woonsocket. 

North Attleboro, Mass. 

Providence. 

• 

North Scituate. 
Attleboro, Mass. 
Providence. 

Fall River, Mass. 

Fall River, Mass. 
Providence. 

Providence. 

Woonsocket. 

Woonsocket. 

Woonsocket. 

Pawtucket. 

Pawtucket. 

Bristol. 


* Passed a satisfactory examination 


































208.* 

199.* 

263.* 

273.* 

44 .* 

43. 

39.* 

21 . 

56.* 


142. 

259.* 

129. 

178. 

11 .* 

157. * 

158. * 
3G. 
35. 

265.* 

149.* 

122 .* 

167. * 
154.* 

168. 


BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


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Todd, John P. 

Tore, Charles W. 

Toye, Thomas A. 

Trianor, E. Joseph. 

Trottier, Cleophas A. 

Trottier, John B. 

Wachsclilager, Hugo E.... 

Walsh, John H. 

Ward, Joseph E. 

Waring, James H. 

Waterman, Frank S., Jr... 

Watson, Frank E. 

Whipple, Andrew B. 

Whipple, Frank M. 

Whiting, Arthur E. 

Whiting, William L. 

Wilbur, Frederick . 

Wilbur, George M. 

Williams, Frederick B. ... 

Williams, George Z. 

Williams, James H. 

Winward, James E. 

Wood, Albertus F. 

York, Andrew W. 


. .. . Providence. 

.... Providence. 

... Providence. 

... .Providence. 

.. .. Providence. 

.... Providence. 

.... Providence. 

.... Providence. 

... . Pawtucket. 

.... Fall River, Mass. 

_Boston, Mass. 

.... Providence. 

... . Greenville. 

.... Pascoag. 

... .North Attleboro, Mass. 
.. .. Providence. 

.. .. Bristol. 

. ... Warren. 

.... Pawtucket. 

... .Upton, Mass. 

.... East Providence. 

.... Fall River, Mass. 

. ... Danielson, Conn. 

.... Providence. 


* Passed a satisfactory examination. 




























List of Persons holding Undertakers’ Licenses in ac¬ 
cordance with Chapter 575, Section 8 of the Public 
Laws, Passed at the January session, A. D. 1910. 


11 Andrews, George W., Superintendent, Slatersville Cemetery, 
Slatersville, R. 1. 

13 Cole, Louis C., Superintendent, Town Asylum, Foster, R. I. 

7 Dickey, E. Howard, Superintendent, Union Cemetery, North 

Smithfield, R.. I. 

5 Dyer, Daniel P., Superintendent, Pocasset Cemetery, Cran¬ 
ston, R. I. 

10 Esty, Aaron S., Superintendent, Grace Church Cemetery, 
Providence, R. I. 

3 Harrington, James T., Superintendent, Catholic Cemeteries, 

Providence, R. I 

8 Mathewson, Thomas G., Superintendent, Quidnessett Ceme¬ 

tery, North Kingstown, R. I. 

15 Mathews, Frank A., Superintendent, Dexter Asylum, Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. 

9 Risk, Winthrop A., M. D., Superintendent, State Home and 

School, Providence, R. I. 

1 Warren, James, Jr., Superintendent, North Burial Ground, 
Providence, R. I. 

4 Yorston, Henry I*., Superintendent, East Greenwich Ceme¬ 

tery, East Greenwich, R. I. 



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STATE BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


Rules and Regulations. 

Rule 1. All applications for registration must be made to the 
State Board of Registration in Embalming, upon the blank form 
issued by this Board, which must be filled out and signed by the 
applicant, and bear the signature of a reputable person, residing 
in the same city or town as the applicant, certifying that the ap¬ 
plicant is twenty-one years of age, of good moral character, and 
has obtained a common school education. 

The applicant must make affidavit to his signature, and that 
the statements contained in the application are true and in the 
handwriting of the persons whose names are subscribed thereto. 

Rule 2. Section 1. The applicant must have taken a regular 
course of instruction at a reputable school of embalming whose 
course of instruction is satisfactory to this Board; or he must 
be a practicing embalmer; or 

Section 2. He must hold a certificate of “a licensed embalmer” 
from the examining board of another State whose examinations 
are satisfactory to this Board; and must have had not less than 
one year’s active work as a practicing embalmer. 

Rule 3. All applications must be accompanied by a fee of five 
dollars, as provided by Chapter 35, Section 6, of the General Laws 
of 1909. 




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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


Rule 4. No fee shall be returned when the applicant fails to 
pass, but he or she may appear before this Board for re-examina¬ 
tion upon the payment of a fee of three dollars, as provided by the 
above section of the General Laws. 

Rule 5. Section 1. All applications for examination must be 
filed, together with the fee of five dollars, in the office of the secre¬ 
tary of the State Board of Registration in Embalming, at least 
four days before the date of examination, in order to insure the 
examination of the applicant. 

Section 2. Seventy-five per cent, of answers, in a scale of one 
hundred, shall be required to entitle the applicant to registration. 

Rule 6. Examinations for registration shall be held by the 
State Board of Registration in Embalming, at Providence, on the 
second Thursday of January and July of each year; and addi¬ 
tional meetings may be held at such other time and place as the 
Board may determine. 

Rule 7. Section 1. Every registered embalmer shall secure a 
renewal certificate before the first of January of each succeeding 
year, the fee for which (three dollars) shall be paid not later than 
December 15th of the year designated upon the certificate which 
he holds. Upon receipt of said fee a renewal card bearing the 
name, number, and date of expiration of his registration will be 
issued. 

All registered embalmers must show card of renewal upon re¬ 
quest of boards of health or persons authorized to issue permits. 

Section 2. Any person failing to comply with the preceding 
section shall appear before this Board for re-examination to en¬ 
title him or her to registration as provided by Rule 1. 

Rule 8. No embalming fluid, or any substitute therefor, shall 
be injected into the body of any person supposed to have come to 


BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


13 


death by violence, until a permit in writing, signed by a medical 
examiner, lias been obtained. 

Rule 9. Section 1. The State Board of Registration in Em¬ 
balming may refuse to issue or renew certificates provided for in 
this act, to persons who have by false and fraudulent representa- 
tion obtained or sought to obtain practice in their profession; or 
who fail to comply with Chapter 121 of the General Laws of the 
State, as amended by Chapter 575 of the Public Laws, as passed 
at the January session, A. D. 1910, or of Chapter 35 of the Gen¬ 
eral Laws of 1909, or who are guilty of any other unprofessional 
or dishonorable conduct, or of anv violation of the rules of the 
State or local boards of health. 

Section 2. This Board may revoke such certificates for any of 
such or other like causes: Provided that no certificate shall be re¬ 
voked until the holder has been given reasonable notice of the 
charge or charges against him, and an opportunity for a full hear¬ 
ing before this Board. 

Rule 10. Boards of health, city or town clerks, or other per¬ 
sons authorized to issue permits, shall have a certified list of em- 
baliners, compiled and furnished by the State Board of Registra¬ 
tion in Embalming. 

Rule 11. The rules and regulations of the State Board of Reg¬ 
istration in Embalming have been adopted under the provisions 
of Chapter 35 of the General Laws of Rhode Island, and it is ex¬ 
pected that no transportation company operating in Rhode Island 
will receive the body of any person deceased until it has been pre¬ 
pared by a registered embalmer holding a certificate issued by the 
State Board of Registration in Embalming. 


Rules of the Rhode Island State Board of Registration 
in Embalming for the Transportation of the Dead. 


These Rules having been duly adopted and approved by the State Board 

of Health, have the force of Law. 


Rule 1. A transit permit and transit label issued by the 
proper health authorities shall be required for each dead body 
transported by common carrier. 

The transit permit shall state the name, sex, color and age of 
the deceased, the cause and date of death, the initial and terminal 
points, the date and route of shipment, a statement as to the 
method of preparation of the body, the date of issuance, the sig¬ 
nature of the undertaker, the signature and the official title of 
the officer issuing the permit. 

The transit label shall state the place and date of death, the 
name of the deceased, the name of the escort or consignee, the 
initial and terminal points, the date of issuance, the signature 
and official title of the officer issuing the permit, and shall be 
attached to the outside case. 

Rule 2. The transportation of bodies dead of smallpox, 
plague, Asiatic cholera, typhus fever, diphtheria (membranous 
croup, diphtheritic sore throat), and scarlet fever (scarlet rash, 
scarlatina), shall be permitted only under the following con¬ 
ditions : 

The body shall be thoroughly embalmed with aq approved dis¬ 
infectant fluid, all orifices shall be closed with absorbent cotton, 
the body shall be washed with the disinfectant fluid, enveloped 




BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


15 


in a sheet saturated with the same, and placed at once in the 

cotiin or casket which shall be immediately closed, and the coffin 

or casket or the outside case containing the same shall be metal, 

* 

or metal lined, and hermetically and permanently sealed. 

Rule 3. The transportation of bodies dead of any disease 
other than those mentioned in Rule 2 shall he permitted under 
the following conditions: 

((/) When the destination can he reached within twenty-four 
hours after death, the coffin or casket shall be encased in a strong 
outer box made of good, sound lumber, not less than seven-eighths 
of an inch thick, all joints must be tongued and grooved, top 
and bottom, put on with cleats or crosspieces, all put securely 
together, and be tightly closed with white lead, asphalt varnish, 
or paraffin paint, and a rubber gasket placed on the upper edge 
between the lid and box. 

{h) When the destination cannot he reached within twenty- 
four hours after death, the body shall be thoroughly embalmed, 
and the coffin or casket placed in an outside case constructed as 
provided in paragraph (a). 

Rule 4. No disinterred body dead from anv disease or cause 
shall he transported by common carrier unless approved by the 
health authorities having jurisdiction at the place of disinter¬ 
ment, and transit permit and transit label shall be required as 
provided in Rule 1. 

The disinterment and transportation of bodies dead of diseases 
mentioned in Rule 2 shall not be allowed except by special per¬ 
mission of the health authorities at both the place of disinter¬ 
ment and the point of destination. 

All disinterred remains shall be enclosed in metal or metal 
lined boxes and hermetically sealed, provided that bodies in a 
receiving vault, when prepared by licensed embalmers, shall not 


16 


BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


be regarded as disinterred bodies until after the expiration of 
30 days. 

Rule 5. The outside case may be omitted in all instances when 
the coffin or casket is transported in hearse or undertaker’s 
wagon. 

Rule 6. Every outside case shall bear at least four handles, 

i j 

and when over 5 feet, 6 inches in length shall bear six handles. 

Rule 7. An approved disinfectant fluid shall contain not less 
than 5 per cent of formaldehyde gas, the term “embalming” as 
employed in these rules shall require the injection by licensed 
embalmers of not less than 10 per cent of the body weight, in¬ 
jected arterially in addition to cavity injection, and 12 hours 
should elapse between the time of embalming and the shipment 
of the body. 


NEW RULES. 


At a recent conference of Passenger Traffic Officials and General 
Baggage Agents of all the different Passenger Traffic Associations 
throughout the United States and Canada the following fundamental 
rules were adopted : 


Rules and Regulations with 


Regard to Transportation op 


Corpses. 


(a) A corpse will be accepted for transportation only on pre¬ 
sentation of legal form of transit permit, properly filled out and 
signed, showing that the body has been prepared for shipment in 
accordance with law. Such permit must be securely fastened on 
top or end of burial box. 

(b) A corpse will be transported in baggage service only when 
accompanied (on same train) by an adult escort. 

(c) A check will be issued to cover the transportation of a 
corpse, except that corpse checks will not be issued between points 
where wagon transfer is involved, except as noted in paragraph 
(e). The charge for the transportation of a corpse, not exceed¬ 
ing five hundred (500) pounds in weight, including casket and 
box, see paragraph (h) will be published first-class passenger 
fare, limited or unlimited, and the check will be issued only to 
the escort in charge, who will be required to present a ticket to 
cover his, or her own passage, endorsed “Corpse Escort” on con¬ 
tract and each coupon. Ticket Agents must also note in ink im¬ 
mediately under the endorsement the number of the corpse check. 


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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


(d) The minimum charge for the transportation of a corpse 
will be one dollar ($1.00). 

(e) The escort will be required to make all arrangements for 
the transfer at the points where wagon transfer is involved and 
to recheck therefrom except that at Chicago, Ill., the Parmelee 
Transfer Co. will transfer a corpse the same as baggage under 
check, and corpse checks may therefore be issued via Chicago re- 
gardless of wagon transfer at that point, unless other arrange¬ 
ments are desired by the escort. 

(f) The return portion of an adult passenger's ticket orig¬ 
inally issued to the deceased, will be accepted in exchange for a 
corpse check via same route to destination of the ticket surren¬ 
dered, subject to weight as shown in paragraph (h) of this rule. 

(g) The return portion of a half-fare ticket, originally issued 
for the transportation of a child, when surrendered together with, 
cash to cover the half-fare to destination and via route of the 
original ticket, will be accepted in payment of the transportation 
of the corpse subject to weight as shown in paragraph (h) of 
this rule, and a corpse check issued therefor. 

(h) When a corpse in casket and box, weighing more than 
five hundred (500) pounds, is presented for transportation in bag¬ 
gage service, there will be an additional charge at regular excess 
baggage rates for the weight in excess of five hundred (500) 
pounds, and the amount thus collected will be shown on the check 
issued. 

(i) Each corpse box must be plainly marked, showing name 
of deceased, route, destination and to whom consigned, and should 
be provided with not less than six (0) handles; two on each side, 
and one on each end. 


BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


19 


(j) Baggage of deceased may be checked to accompany a 
corpse, in accordance with the rules governing the transportation 
of a passenger’s baggage. 

(k) A corpse will not be accepted or transported, if in an of¬ 
fensive condition, or if fluids are escaping from the case, notwith¬ 
standing the presentation of permits or certificates. 

(l) Corpses, destined to points in die province of New Bruns¬ 
wick (Canada), or to pass through that province en route to des¬ 
tination, must be enclosed in hermetically sealed leaden or metal¬ 
lic caskets or cases, regardless of the cause of death. 

(m) Corpses destined to points east of St. John, N. B., will 
be checked to St. John, N. B., only. Escorts must arrange there 
for transportation beyond. 


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JANUARY SESSION, A. D. 1908. 


CHAPTER 1575. 

AN ACT TO CREATE A STATE BOARD OF REGISTRATION 
IN EMBALMING, AND TO REGULATE THE BUSINESS 
OF EMBALMING. 

[Passed May 19, 1908.] 

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: 

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for am^ person to engage in the 
embalming of dead human bodies in this state unless he shall have 
first obtained a certificate of registration as provided in this act. 
Any person who shall have received, as hereinafter provided in 
this act, a certificate of his qualifications to practice as an em¬ 
balmer, shall be deemed and known as a registered embalmer un¬ 
der the provisions of this act; and no person, unless he has re¬ 
ceived a certificate under the provisions of this act, shall advertise 
or in any manner use such name of registered embalmer, or any 
other words or letters, or any intimidation thereof tending to indi¬ 
cate that the person so advertising or using the same is such regis¬ 
tered embalmer. 

Sec. 2. A board of examiners, to be known as the state board of 
registration in embalming, is hereby created to carry out the pur¬ 
poses and enforce the provisions of this act. The members of said 
board, when appointed, shall be citizens of this state, and shall 



BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


liave at least five years’ practical experience in the embalming of 
dead human bodies and been actively engaged therein on their 
own account in this state. At the present session of the general 
assembly the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, 
shall appoint one member of said board to hold office until the 
first da}’ of February, A. I). 1909; one member of said board to 
hold office until the first day of February, A. I). 1910; and one 
member of said board to hold office until the first day of Febru- 
ary, A. D. 1911. At the January session of the general assembly, 
A. D. 1909, and at the January session of the general assembly in 
every year thereafter, the governor, with the advice and consent of 
the senate, shall appoint one member of said board to hold office 
until the first day of February in the third year after his ap¬ 
pointment, to succeed the member of such board whose term will 
next expire: Provided, that any vacancy which may occur in said 
board when the general assembly is not in session shall be filled 
by the governor until the next session thereof, when he shall, with 
the advice and consent of the senate, appoint some person to fill 
such vacancy for the remainder of the term. Each member of 
said board shall hold office until his successor is appointed and 
qualified. Any member of said board may be removed by the gov¬ 
ernor, with the advice and consent of the senate, for such cause as 
he and the senate shall deem sufficient, and shall express in the 
order of removal. Each member of said board shall give a bond in 
the sum of one thousand dollars, with surety or sureties to be ap¬ 
proved by the general treasurer, conditioned for the faithful per¬ 
formance of his duties, and shall take the oath provided by law 
for public officers. 

Sec. 3. Said state board of registration in embalming shall 
organize as soon as may be after their appointment and qualifica¬ 
tion by electing one of their members chairman and one of their 
members secretary, and one of their members treasurer, and such 


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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


organization shall continue until the appointment of any new 
member of said board of registration, except in case of any va¬ 
cancy in any office, in which case such vacancy may be filled forth¬ 
with : Provided, that the office of secretary and treasurer may be 
filled by the same member. The secretary of said board shall keep 
a record of all its proceedings, issue all notices and certificates, 
and attest all such papers and orders as said board shall direct; 
and the secretary shall perform such other duties as shall be des¬ 
ignated by said board. Said board shall hold two regular meet¬ 
ings in each year, one on the first Tuesday of May, one on the first 
Monday of November, and such additional meetings at such times 
and places as they may determine. 

Sec. 4. Said board shall have power to adopt rules and regula¬ 
tions for conducting examinations to be held under this act. Said 
examinations shall be held at least once a year in the city of Provi¬ 
dence and elsewhere in the discretion of said board. Such exam¬ 
inations shall be held upon the theory and practice of embalming, 
and such other relevant subjects as said board may determine. 
Such board shall issue to each applicant passing a satisfactory ex¬ 
amination a certificate, signed by the chairman and secretary of 
said board, entitling such person to practice in this state as a 
registered embalmer for the annual period stated in such license, 
or until such certificate shall be revoked as hereinafter provided 
in this act. Said board shall fix the time when all said licenses 
shall expire. Said board shall keep a register in which shall be 
entered the names of all the persons to whom certificates are is¬ 
sued under this act, and said register shall be open at all times to 
public inspection at the office of the secretary of said board. 

Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the board, immediately upon its 
organization, to notify all persons engaged in the embalming of 
dead human bodies in this state of the provisions of this act; and 
such persons so notified who have been engaged in the embalming 


BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


23 


of dead human bodies as aforesaid prior to the passage of this 
act shall, upon their application and the payment of a fee of five 
dollars to said board, be registered as einbalmers, and shall re¬ 
ceive a certificate thereof to the time fixed bv said board for the 
expiration of said licenses. 

Sec. G. Said board shall charge for the examination and certifi¬ 
cate provided for in this act a fee of five dollars, payable by said 
applicant at the time of filing his application. In case of the fail¬ 
ure on the part of any applicant to attend the examination at the 
date specified by said board, on sufficient excuse said applicant 
may, at the discretion of said board, appear and be examined at 
any subsequent meeting of said board, without charge, and in case 
of failure to pass a satisfactory examination any applicants may, 
in the discretion of said board, have a re-examination upon the 
payment of the further sum of three dollars. Every registered 
embalmer shall, after his registration, on such date as said board 
may determine, pay to the secretary of said board an annual fee 
of three dollars for the renewal of his registration. 

Sec. 7. The actual expenses of said board shall be paid out of 
the funds received from applicants for examinations: Provided, 
that in no event shall such expenses be a charge against the state. 
After all necessary expenses of said board have been paid by the 
treasurer thereof out of the moneys received by it from said fees, 
including a salary of one hundred dollars a vear to each of the 
members of said board, if there be funds for that purpose, the 
balance of the moneys received by it from said fees under this act 
shall be paid to the general treasurer. No moneys shall be ap¬ 
plied to the payment of the expenses of said board or of said sal¬ 
aries, except that received from said fees as aforesaid. 

Sec. 8. Said board shall present annually to the general assem¬ 
bly, in the month of January, a detailed statement of the receipts 


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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


and disbursements of said board during the preceding year, with 
a statement of its acts and proceedings and such recommenda¬ 
tions as said board may deem proper. 

Sec. 9. Said board shall have power to revoke any certificate of 
registration, granted by it under this act, for gross incompetency, 
for unprofessional conduct, or for other cause sufficient in the 
judgment of said board: Provided, that before any certificate 
shall be so revoked, the holder thereof shall have notice in writing 
of the charge or charges against him, and shall have reasonable 
opportunity to be heard in his defence. Any person whose cer¬ 
tificate has been so revoked may apply to have the same reissued, 
and the same shall be reissued to him upon a satisfactory showing 
that such disqualification has ceased. Said board shall have 
power by its chairman to summon any person to appear as a wit¬ 
ness and testify at any hearing by said board under the provi¬ 
sions of this act, and to examine and to administer oaths to such 
witnesses. Any person aggrieved by any decision or ruling of 
said board may, within thirty days, exclusive of Sundays and holi¬ 
days, after receiving notice of said decision, appeal therefrom to 
the superior court sitting at Providence, by filing therein his rea¬ 
sons of appeal, and said superior court shall, as soon as may be 
after such notice to said board as shall be directed by the court, 
hear and determine said appeal, following the course of equity, 
and subject to all the rights of parties in such causes. 

Sec. 10. Nothing in this act shall prohibit any person from 
serving as an apprentice under the personal supervision of a regis¬ 
tered embalmer: Provided, such apprentice shall first file with 
the secretary of said board a statement in writing, showing the 
name and place of business of his employer, and the date of the 
beginning of such employment, and the full name, age, and resi¬ 
dence of such apprentice. No such apprentice shall be author- 


BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


25 


ized to advertise or hold himself out to the public as a registered 
embalmer. Any person duly qualified and complying with the 
provisions of this act may be licensed as a registered embalmer, 
although not in business on his own account. 

Sec. 11. Whoever, not being registered as aforesaid, or whose 
license shall have expired or have been revoked as aforesaid, shall 
by himself, or agent or servant, unless such agent or servant is so 
registered, engage in the business of the embalming of dead hu¬ 
man bodies, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hun¬ 
dred dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two 
months, or by both, in the discretion of the court. 

Sec. 12. This act shall take effect upon its passage for the ap¬ 
pointment of commissioners, the examinations of applicants, and 
the conduct of the business of said board. For all other purposes 
this act shall take effect upon June 1, A. I). 1908. 

A true copy. 


Attest: 


CHARLES P. BENNETT, 


Secretary of State. 


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EXTRACTS FROM CHAPTER 121 OF THE GENERAL LAWS, 
AS AMENDED BY CHAPTER 575 OF THE PUBLIC 
LAWS, PASSED AT THE JANUARY SESSION, A. D. 
1910, ENTITLED “OF THE REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, 
DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES,” AND AS AMENDED AT 
THE JANUARY SESSION, A. D. 1911. 

Section 3. The record of deaths shall state the date of death, 

name and surname of deceased, the sex, color, and condition, 

whether single or married, age, occupation, place of death, place 

of birth, names and birthplace of parents, disease or cause of 

death, the name and relation to the deceased of the person fur- 

> 

nishing such information, place of burial and the time of record¬ 
ing, so far as can be ascertained: Provided however , that still¬ 
births shall be recorded both as births and deaths, but separately 
from the records of both births or deaths. 

Sec. 7. Whenever any person shall die, or any still-born child 
be brought forth, in this state, the undertaker or embalmer who 
has charge of the body shall obtain and return to the town clerk 
or registrar a certificate of death, prepared in accordance with 
section 3 of this chapter, and upon a blank to be furnished by the 
secretary of the state board of health. The statement of facts re¬ 
lating to the disposition of the body shall be signed by the under¬ 
taker or person acting as such. 

The medical certificate shall be made and signed by the phy¬ 
sician, if any, last in attendance on the deceased. But whenever 
the body of a person is lying dead in any town or city, who has 



BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


27 


been unattended, in his or her last sickness, by a physician regis¬ 
tered to practice in this state, the town or city" clerk, or in the city 
of Providence the city registrar, shall call upon a registered phy¬ 
sician, or the medical examiner of the district in which the re¬ 
mains are lying, to inquire into and to certify as to the cause and 
manner of death, and shall allow to said physician or medical ex¬ 
aminer the fee of two dollars, which shall be paid out of the town 
or city treasury of said town or city upon the order of said town 
or city clerk or registrar: And provided, however, that whenever 
the medical examiner is called and finds upon inquiry that the 
cause is within the provisions of Chapter 356 of the General Laws, 
his services shall be rendered and fees paid in accordance with the 
provisions of said chapter 356. Whoever shall sign the medical 
certificate of death shall sbite the cause of death so as to show the 
course of disease or sequence of causes resulting in the death, giv¬ 
ing the primary cause, and also the contributory causes, if any, 
and the duration of each. Indefinite and unsatisfactory state- 
rnents shall not be held sufficient for issuing a burial or removal 
permit; and any certificate which contains onty indefinite state¬ 
ments, or statements unsatisfactory to the secretary of the state 
board of health, shall be returned to the physician for correction 
and definition. Causes of death which may be the result of either 
disease or violence shall be carefully defined; and, if from vio¬ 
lence, its nature shall be stated, and whether probably accidental, 
suicidal, or homicidal. Every certificate shall be written legibly 
in unfading black ink or with a black record typewriter ribbon. 

Sec. 8. Any person registered as an embalmer by the state 
board of registration in embalming shall be an undertaker, and 
may act as such in any town or city in the state. And the super¬ 
intendent of any state or town asylum, hospital or similar institu¬ 
tion, or any cemetery corporation, may act as undertaker, if he 
shall first register his name with the state board of registration in 


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BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


embalming. No fee shall be charged any such superintendent for 

i 

such registration. No person shall act as undertaker or shall 
bury, deposit in a vault or tomb, cremate, or otherwise dispose of, 
or remove from any town or city in the state, the dead body of any 
person or of any still-born child, except he be a registered em- 
balmer or undertaker registered as herein provided. 

“Sec. 9. No person shall bury, deposit in a vault or tomb, cre¬ 
mate or otherwise dispose of, or remove from any town or city in 
the state, the dead body of any person or of any still-born child, 
until a permit for burial or removal, or other disposition, shall 
have been properly issued by the town clerk or registrar of the 
town or city in which the death occurred: Provided, that when a 
death occurs in the state institutions in the city of Cranston, or 
in the state sanatorium in the town of Burrillville, the superin¬ 
tendent or the person in charge thereof shall issue a burial or re¬ 
moval permit. Said superintendent or person in charge shall as 
soon as possible mail the certificate of death to the town or city 
clerk or registrar of the town or city where said death occurred. 
Said superintendent or person in charge shall charge a fee of 
twenty-five cents for each burial or removal permit he issues, 
which fee shall be paid by the undertaker who signs the certificate 
of death. No burial or removal permit shall be issued by said 
town clerk or registrar or other persons appointed as aforesaid 
until a certificate of death has been filed with him as provided in 
section seven of this chapter: and provided, that when a dead 
body is transported into this state for burial, and said death oc¬ 
curred outside of the state, then the transit or removal permit is¬ 
sued in accordance with the law and health regulations of the 
place where the death occurred shall be accepted by the sexton 
or person in charge at the place of burial as a burial permit.” 

“Sec. 10. No sexton or person in charge of any premises in 
which interments, or entombments, or other disposition of dead 


BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN EMBALMING. 


*29 


bodies are made, shall inter or permit the interment, entombment, 
or other disposition of any such body unless it is accompanied by 
a burial permit to the place of interment, entombment or other 
disposition as herein provided. Each sexton or person in charge 
of any burial ground, tomb, or other place where disposition is 
made of dead bodies shall indorse upon the burial permit the date 
and location of such interment, entombment or other disposition, 
and shall return all burial permits so indorsed to the town or city 
clerk or registrar of the town or city in which such interment, en¬ 
tombment, or other disposition is made, on or before the fifth day 
of the month next succeeding, and said sexton or person in charge 
aforesaid shall keep a record of all such interments, entombments, 
or other disposition of dead bodies made in or on the premises 
under his charge, stating the name of the deceased person, place 
of death, date of burial and specific location or disposition of the 
remains, and the name and address of the undertaker, which rec¬ 
ord shall at all times be open to public inspection. 

“Sec. 12. The town clerks or persons appointed as aforesaid 
shall receive for each record of a death made and returned as re¬ 
quired by law, and for each record of a marriage made and re¬ 
turned as required by law, twenty cents, and for each burial per¬ 
mit issued as required by law twenty-five cents to be paid to them 
out of their respective town treasuries: Provided, that the yearly 
compensation to be paid out of the town treasury as aforesaid, to 
any one town clerk or person appointed as aforesaid who shall 
perform the duties prescribed by this chapter, shall not be less 
than ten dollars. Undertakers and others making returns of 
deaths as required by sections seven and nine of this chapter shall 
receive twenty-five cents for each return thus made, to be paid out 
of the town or city treasury of the town or city where the death 
occurred. For making a certified copy of any record of a birth, 
marriage or death, the town clerk or registrar shall be entitled to 


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a fee of fifty cents from the applicant therefor. For making and 
transmitting the copies of records as required by section twenty 
of this chapter, the town clerks or registrars shall receive for each 
copy of a record of a birth, marriage or death, made and trans¬ 
mitted as prescribed, the sum of twenty cents, to be paid to them 
out of their respective town or city treasuries.” 

Sec. 13. Every clergyman, physician, midwife, undertaker, 
town clerk, clerk of any meeting of the Society of Friends or 
other person, who shall wilfully or unreasonably neglect or refuse 
to perform any of the duties imposed on or required of him by this 
chapter, shall be fined not exceeding twenty dollars nor less than 
two dollars for each offence, one-half thereof to the use of the 
town in which the offence shall occur and one-lialf thereof to the 
use of the person who shall complain of the same. 

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Sec. 14. Every clergyman, physician, coroner, undertaker, 
medical-examiner, or clerk of any meeting of the Society of 
Friends, shall cause his name, residence and post-office address to 
be recorded in the town clerk's office of the town where he resides. 































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